I have told you that: we know nothing save what we have first, in one way or another, desired; and it may even be added that we can know nothing well save what we love, save what we pity.
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Aphorisms by Miguel De Unamuno
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
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Science says: We must live, and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable; wisdom says: We must die, and seeks how to make us die well.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.
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Consciousness is a disease.
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The march, as ever, is toward the future, and he who marches is getting there, even though he march walking backwards. And who knows if that is not the better way!...
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From whatever side the matter is regarded, it is always found that reason confronts our longing for personal immortality and contradicts it. And the truth is, in all strictness, that reason is the enemy of life.
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The man of flesh and bone; the man who is born, suffers, and dies, above all, who dies; the man who eats and drinks and plays and sleeps and thinks and wills; the man who is seen and heard; the brother, the real brother.
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There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man, that is, the more divine, the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
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Feeling does not succeed in converting consolation into truth, nor does reason succeed in converting truth into consolation.
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