Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Logic is no answer to passion.

As humans, we are not so rationalist as we think we are. I think our biggest quality is indeed that we are human, truly human: if our biggest quality would be rationality, we would lose our soul.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

I am sorry that as leader of the community, San Antonio and my name go together. But I guess human beings just aren't made of plastic and wiring and metal. They are made of flesh and blood and feelings.

A feeling is not a fact.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

The older I get, the more I feel that's all we are: a big bunch of feelings and instincts all wrapped up in some brief encounter with intellect.

I'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.

Basically, I'm an emotional man and a human being.

Love is the only rational act.

Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal