I leave you the best phrases of Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936), famous Spanish writer and philosopher belonging to the generation of 98. He cultivated literary genres such as novels, essays, theater and poetry.
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-Only those who try absurd things are capable of achieving impossible things.
-If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he does not say anything.
-My goal is to agitate and annoy people. I am not selling bread; I am selling yeast.
It is sad not to love someone, but it is much worse not being able to love someone.
-A man dies of cold, not of darkness.
-Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, since only suffering makes us people.
-Men have the habit of shouting so they don't have to listen to each other.
-Until a person really cries, it is not known if he has a soul or not.
-Every act of kindness is a show of power.
-Never put in your head what fits in your pocket! Don't put what comes into your head in your pocket!
-What fascist people hate above all things, is intelligent people.
-Let us try more to be parents of our future than children of our past.
-The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
-Actions free us from bad feelings, and it is bad feelings that poison the soul.
-The world is a kaleidoscope. The logic is put by man. The supreme art is that of chance.
-The two things that human beings hate the most are striving and taking responsibility for their actions.
-They say that to know is to forgive. But no, forgiving is knowing. Love first, knowledge comes later.
-Love is the rhythm. The science of rhythm is mathematics; the sensitive expression of love is music.
-Love precedes knowledge, and knowledge kills that one.
-The only truth is that of the physiological man, the one who doesn't speak, the one who doesn't lie.
-Most of the time, staying silent is like lying, because silence can be interpreted as confirmation.
-Only a person with knowledge is free and the more he knows the freer he is. Do not proclaim the freedom to fly, but you have wings to take off.
-The kisses that come laughing, then they go away crying, and with them life goes, which will never return.
-Sometimes when we are silent we lie to ourselves.
-To convince people it is necessary to persuade them and, to be able to do it, you will need much more than brute force.
-Life is doubt and faith without any doubt, it is nothing more than death itself.
-People who believe in God, but without any kind of passion in their hearts, without concern in their minds, without uncertainty, without a doubt, without a minimum of despair even in their own comfort, believe only in the idea of God and not in God himself.
-The lower the amount of what we read, the more harmful the percentage.
-What do we understand by love? Who was in charge of defining love? At the end of the day, defined love ceases to be so.
-They say that man is an animal of reasoning. However, it has never been defined as a loving or sensitive animal, perhaps what differentiates it from other animals is feeling rather than reason.
-Try to make the effort to think about the feeling and then try to feel the thought.
-If nothing is truly what awaits us, it is good to allow ourselves to commit an injustice.
-Let's try to fight against destiny even if there is no hope of victory.
-He who is skeptical does not necessarily doubt, in my opinion, those types of people investigate and affirm only what they have found.
-It is not the night that is responsible for killing people, but the presence of the cold that occurs when the stars are found.
-Our life without hesitation is a hope that constantly turns into memory and memory is capable of engendering hope.
-Trying to kill time is perhaps the pure essence of comedy.
-Usually the philosopher idealizes to try to locate life, to find some purpose in it, to distract himself and forget his misfortunes or just for pastime and fun.
-Our ideas are not those that make us optimistic or pessimistic, however, it is our optimism or pessimism that allows our ideas to emerge.
-Man is dying little by little and that may be because we have acted in a very particular way to have an unjust fate.
-Most of the time men do nothing but lie and try to make ourselves important.
-Speech was created with the purpose of magnifying all our sensations and impressions, perhaps with the sole objective of believing in them.
- For whom will the world exist when we exhaust the spaces with large factories, with roads, museums and libraries?
-Was man created for science or was science made for man?
-The secret of human life, the secret of the universe, the secret of the root through which all other secrets arise, becomes the greatest desire in life.
-A delusional and insatiable desire is to try to be everything else while still being ourselves.
-Those faults that we do not have really do not bother us.
-In the world, vanity and love are two fundamental and acute notes of the heart of a true poetry and they are also two notes of which neither can sound without causing the other to vibrate.
-Vagos are the people who say they work and the only thing they do is stun and drown in their thoughts.
-A pedantic person observed Solon crying over the death of his son and asked him: «Why are you crying like this if crying is of no use to you? And the wise man replied: Exactly why, because it is useless.
-The conscience becomes participatory knowledge.
-Love is capable of personalizing everything it loves, only in that way can we fall in love with an idea.
-Saying that absolutely everything is an idea or that everything is spirit is the same as saying that everything is matter or that everything is energy and not necessarily everything is capable of lasting forever.
-What we consider to be the causes of our behavior are usually the pretexts for it.
-The men who speak first say something, then they think about it, and finally they do it regardless of whether it turns out badly or well after thinking about it.
-The men of their word never regret and think about yesterday once they have made a decision.
-Most men subconsciously live in boredom. Boredom is the beginning of life because games, distractions, romance and love were invented thanks to it.
Among the busy and distracted crowd, he was unable to feel himself.
- Are not all the novels autobiographies that persevere by making their authors and their antagonists last?
-Science takes away from men wisdom and generally turns them into phantom beings loaded only with facts.
-We are only capable of finding ourselves in solitude and when we find ourselves, we find all our brothers.
-Try to cure yourself of the anguish of worrying about how you appear to others. Try to worry only about the idea that God may have about you.
-It doesn't make sense to take any kind of drug. It is a better alternative to put salt and vinegar on the wound of the soul, because if you fall asleep and you no longer feel the pain, it may not exist.
-Isolation is the worst of counselors.
-A lot of excellent arguments can be spoiled by a fool who knows what he is saying.
-May God give you peace, but may he never take away the glory!
-Hell was conceived in the world as a police institution to inspire fear, but worst of all is that it no longer scares anyone and, therefore, must be closed.
-Art condenses sensations and incorporates them with an enhanced meaning.