Miguel de Unamuno's best quotes
The top 3 according to 9 votes from people: Spain hurts me in the very core of my heart. · Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. · What you can't express, you don't know.. (Updated Oct 9, 2019.)
From the 'you will win, but you will not convince' of Salamanca to Mist and The Tragic Sense of Life: Unamuno's best-known lines with their source, and one that is only attributed to him.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 13
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Spain hurts me in the very core of my heart.
Letter of November 1923 to a Spaniard living in Buenos Aires.
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2
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
The Tragic Sense of Life, chapter VII.
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What you can't express, you don't know.
Meditaciones y ensayos espirituales.
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My motto is: veritas prius pace, truth before peace.
Written in 1909.
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We must seek the truth, not the reason, of things. And truth is sought with humility.
Private diary (1897).
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To believe in God is, in a way, to create him.
From his essays on faith.
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Let us try to be parents of our future rather than children of our past.
Collected in anthologies of his writings.
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And what is love? Who has ever defined love? Love defined stops being love.
Mist, chapter IV.
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9
You will win, but you will not convince.
Speech in the main hall of the University of Salamanca, 12 October 1936.
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10
Feel the thought, think the feeling.
Line from the poem 'Credo poético'.
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Man's life on earth is struggle, and struggle first and foremost with himself.
Speech on the centenary of Darwin's birth, Valencia, 22 February 1909.
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12
The blood of my spirit is my language. And my homeland is wherever it is heard.
Lines from his poetry.
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13
I don't know what it's about, but I'm against it.
Attributed: according to the anecdote, he said it on arriving at a meeting.
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