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Miguel de Unamuno
(29 Sep 1864 - 31 Dec 1936)
Spanish novelist and philosopher whose works included essays, novels, poetry and theatrical plays. He was a modernist and an intellectual.
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Science Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno (9)
All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.
— Miguel de Unamuno
Tragic Sense of Life (1913), translated by John Ernest Crawford Flitch (1954), 90.
See also: | Knowledge (341)
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
— Miguel de Unamuno
Tragic Sense of Life (1913), translated by John Ernest Crawford Flitch (1954), 90.
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.
— Miguel de Unamuno
'Arbitrary Reflections', Essays and Soliloquies, translated by John Ernest Crawford Flitch (1925), 154. In Robert Andrews, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993), 844:9.
Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are—that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.
— Miguel de Unamuno
Tragic Sense of Life (1913), translated by John Ernest Crawford Flitch (1954), 193.
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. The one is the man who studies the problem and the other is the man who gives us a formula, correct or incorrect, as the solution of it.
— Miguel de Unamuno
'My Religion', Essays and Soliloquies, translated by John Ernest Crawford Flitch (1925), 56. In Robert Andrews, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993), 844:9.
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
— Miguel de Unamuno
Tragic Sense of Life (1913), translated by John Ernest Crawford Flitch (1954), 93.
Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
— Miguel de Unamuno
Tragic Sense of Life (1913), translated by John Ernest Crawford Flitch (1954), 12.
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid—in which case all comment is superfluous—or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
— Miguel de Unamuno
Tragic Sense of Life (1913), translated by John Ernest Crawford Flitch (1954), 99.
See also: | Truth (247)
While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
— Miguel de Unamuno
Tragic Sense of Life (1913), translated by John Ernest Crawford Flitch (1954), 23.
See also: | Truth (247)
