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Miguel de Unamuno Quotes - Page 5

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.

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

Knowledge, Science, Goal

Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?

Miguel de Unamuno

Art, Fall, Men

Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense Of Life”, p.59, tredition

The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.

Miguel de Unamuno

Pessimism, Said, Protest

Miguel De Unamuno (2005). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.265, Cosimo, Inc.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Miguel de Unamuno

Love, Pity Love, Spirit

I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.

Miguel de Unamuno

Order, Theology

"San Manuel Bueno, Mártir". Book by Miguel de Unamuno, 1933.

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

Miguel de Unamuno

Truth, Sake, Inhuman

Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.33, Princeton University Press

Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.

Miguel de Unamuno

Dream, Art, Philosophy

Miguel de Unamuno (1925). “Essays and Soliloquies”

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

Miguel de Unamuno

Science, Ideas, Issues

Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense Of Life”, p.152, tredition

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