Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (29 September 1864 in Bilbao –31 December 1936 in Salamanca) was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, and Greek professor, and later rector at the University of Salamanca.
His major philosophical essay was The Tragic Sense of Life (1912), and his most famous novel was Abel Sánchez: The History of a Passion(1917), a modern exploration of the Cain and Abel story.
Quotes:
- A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
- It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
- 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.
- It has often been said that every man who has suffered misfortunes prefers to be himself, even with his misfortunes, rather than to be someone else without them.
- Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
