Miguel de Unamuno quotes - page 8

Not by way of reason, but only by way of love and suffering, do we come to the living God, the human God. (Miguel de Unamuno)
Yes, I know well that others before me have felt what I feel and express; that many others feel it today, although they keep silence about it. View quote
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There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. View quote
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Knowledge is employed in the service of the necessity of life and primarily in the service of the instinct of personal preservation. View quote
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I neither want to die nor do I want to want to die; I want to live for ever and ever and ever. View quote
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And through this despair he reaches the heroic fury of which Giordano Bruno spoke - that intellectual Don Quixote who escaped from the cloister - and became an awakener of sleeping souls (dormitantium animorum excubitor), as the ex-Dominican said of himself - he who wrote: "Heroic love is the property of those superior natures who are called insane (insano) not because they do not know, but because they over-know (soprasanno)." View quote
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It would be better to say that the true God is He to whom man truly prays and whom man truly desires. And there may even be a truer revelation in superstition itself than in theology. View quote
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Faith makes us live by showing us that life, although it is dependent upon reason, has its well spring and source of power elsewhere, in something supernatural and miraculous. View quote
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I - the I that thinks, wills and feels - am immediately my living body with the states of consciousness which it sustains. It is my living body that thinks, wills and feels. View quote
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May not the absolute and perfect eternal happiness be an eternal hope, which would die if it were realized? Is it possible to be happy without hope? And there is no place for hope once possession has been realized, for hope, desire, is killed by possession. View quote
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Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. (Miguel de Unamuno)
God is in each of us in the measure in which one feels Him and loves Him. View quote
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Do we not perhaps feel thought, and do we not feel ourselves in the act of knowing and willing? Could not the man in the stove. View quote
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In the most secret chamber of the spirit of him who believes himself convinced that death puts an end to his personal consciousness, his memory, for ever, and all unknown to him perhaps, there lurks a shadow, a vague shadow, a shadow of uncertainty. View quote
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I believe in the immortal origin of this yearning for immortality, which is the very substance of my soul. View quote
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Act so that in your own judgment and in the judgment of others you may merit eternity, act so that you may become irreplaceable, act so that you may not merit death. View quote
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Each consciousness seeks to be itself and all other consciousnesses without ceasing to be itself; it seeks to be God. View quote
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The real sin - perhaps it is a sin against the Holy Ghost for which there is no remission - is the sin of heresy, the sin of thinking for oneself. View quote
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Jesus said that God was not the God of the dead, but of the living. View quote
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The truth is sum, ergo cogito - I am, therefore I think, although not everything that is thinks. Is not consciousness of thinking above all consciousness of being? View quote
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God chose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. (Miguel de Unamuno)
It is the furious longing to give finality to the Universe, to make it conscious and personal, that has brought us to believe in God, to wish that God may exist, to create God, in a word. View quote
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It appears to me to be indisputable that he who I am to-day derives, by a continuous series of states of consciousness, from him who was in my body twenty years ago. Memory is the basis of individual personality, just as tradition is the basis of the collective personality of a people. View quote
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In a word, be it with reason or without reason or against reason, I am resolved not to die. And if, when at last I die out, I die altogether, then I shall not have died out of myself - that is, I shall not have yielded myself to death, but my human destiny shall have killed me. Unless I come to lose my head, or rather my heart, I will not abdicate from life - life will be wrested from me. View quote
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The knowledge of God proceeds from the love of God, and this love has little or nothing of the rational in it. For God is indefinable. To seek to define Him is to seek to confine Him within the limits of our mind - that is to say, to kill Him. In so far as we attempt to define Him, there rises up before us - Nothingness. View quote
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