Miguel de Unamuno: Frases en inglés (página 5)

Miguel de Unamuno era escritor y filósofo español. Frases en inglés.
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“There may be a rationalist who has never wavered in his conviction of the mortality of the soul, and there may be a vitalist who has never wavered in his faith in immortality; but at the most this would prove that just as there are natural monstrosities, so there are those who are stupid as regards heart and feeling, however great their intelligence, and those who are stupid intellectually, however great their virtue. But, in normal cases, I cannot believe those who assure me that never, not in a fleeting moment, not in the hours of direst loneliness and grief, has this murmur of uncertainty breathed upon their consciousness.”

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The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VI : In the Depths of the Abyss

“One of those leaders of what they call the social revolution has said that religion is the opiate of the people. Opium…opium…opium, yes. Let us give them opium so that they can sleep and dream.”

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Miguel de Unamuno libro San Manuel Bueno, Mártir

San Manuel Bueno, Mártir (1933), Prologue

“Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.”

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The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), V : The Rationalist Dissolution

“The wretched consciousness shrinks from it own annihilation, and just as an animal spirit newly severed from the womb of the world, finds itself confronted with the world and knows itself distinct from it, so consciousness must needs desire to possess another life than that of the world itself.”

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The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), III : The Hunger of Immortality

“For the truth is that our doctrines are usually only the justification a posteriori of our conduct, or else they are our way of trying to explain that conduct to ourselves.”

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The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VI : In the Depths of the Abyss

“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 Tragic Sense of Life (1913), V : The Rationalist Dissolution

“The very same reason which one man may regard as a motive for taking care to prolong his life may be regarded by another man as a motive for shooting himself.”

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The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), XI : The Practical Problem

“The intellectual world is divided into two classes — dilettantes, on the one hand, and pedants, on the other.”

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The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), IX : Faith, Hope, and Charity

“Neither is the longing for immortality saved, but rather dissolved and submerged, by agnosticism, or the doctrine of the unknowable. …The unknowable, if it is something more than the merely hitherto unknown, is but a purely negative concept, a concept of limitation. And upon this foundation no human feeling can be built up.”

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The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), V : The Rationalist Dissolution

“Love is a contradiction if there is no God.”

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The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VII : Love, Suffering, Pity

“And the other Don Quixote remained here among us, fighting with desperation. And does he not fight out of despair? …But "despair is the master of possibilities," as we learn from Salazar y Torres (Elegir al enemigo, Act I.), and it is despair and despair alone that begets heroic hope, absurd hope, mad hope. Spero quia absurdum [I hope because it is absurd], it ought to have been said, rather than credo”

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Credo quia absurdam — I believe because it is absurd
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), Conclusion : Don Quixote in the Contemporary European Tragi-Comedy

“"And the upshot of all this," so I have been told more than once and by more than one person, "will be simply that all you will succeed in doing will be to drive people to the wildest Catholicism." And I have been accused of being a reactionary and even a Jesuit. Be it so!… I know very well it is madness to seek to turn the waters of the river back to their source, and that it is only the ignorant who seek to find in the past a remedy for their present ills; but I know too that anyone who fights for any ideal whatever, although his ideal may seem to lie in the past, is driving the world on to the future, and that the only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present. Every supposed restoration of the past is a creation of the future, and if the past which it is sought to restore is a dream, something imperfectly known, so much the better.”

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The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), Conclusion : Don Quixote in the Contemporary European Tragi-Comedy

“And above all, we must feel and act as if an endless continuation of our earthly life awaited us after death; and if it be that nothingness is the fate that awaits us we must not, in the words of Obermann, so act that it shall be a just fate.”

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The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis

“Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined.”

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The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), V : The Rationalist Dissolution

“And what has Don Quixote left, do you ask? I answer, he has left himself, and a man, a living and eternal man, is worth all the theories and all the philosophies. Other peoples have left chiefly institutions, books; we have left souls; St. Teresa is worth any institution, any Critique of Pure Reason.”

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The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), Conclusion : Don Quixote in the Contemporary European Tragi-Comedy

“Reason perhaps teaches certain bourgeois virtues, but it does not make either heroes or saints.”

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The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), XI : The Practical Problem

“Once the needs of hunger are satisfied — and they are soon satisfied — the vanity, the necessity — for it is a necessity — arises of imposing ourselves upon and surviving in others. Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity. He boasts even of his weakness and his misfortunes, for want of anything better to boast of, and is like a child who, in order to attract attention, struts about with a bandaged finger.”

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The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), III : The Hunger of Immortality

“Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.”

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Fe que no duda es fe muerta.
La Agonía del Cristianismo (The Agony of Christianity) (1931)

“Philosophy and religion are enemies, and because they are enemies they have need of one another. There is no religion without some philosophical basis, no philosophy without roots in religion. … the attacks which are directed against religion from a presumed scientific or philosophical point of view are merely attacks from another but opposing religious point of view.”

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The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VI : In the Depths of the Abyss