Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher from Spain.
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“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”
Miguel de Unamuno
“The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found”
“Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.”
“It is sad not to be loved but it is much sadder not to be able to love”
“Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself”
“True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant”
“A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.”
“Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.”
“Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death”
“If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.”