Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.

The inquiry, knowledge, and belief of truth is the sovereign good of human nature.

It is a principle innate and co-natural to every man to have an insatiable inclination to the truth, and to seek for it as for hidden treasure

I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them.

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own comprehension; whenit, the explorer, is altogether to obscure land that it must search and where all its baggage is of no use. To search? That is not all: to create.

If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.

Some rather seek up high Than dig and grind that inner truth

Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do.

Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.

I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.

It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.

But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. We don’t have much truth to express unless we have gone into those rooms and closets and woods and abysses that we were told not go in to. When we have gone in and looked around for a long while, just breathing and finally taking it in – then we will be able to speak in our own voice and to stay in the present moment. And that moment is home.

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

If we can get to the truth, we can change anything.

If you are truly a seeker of truth, truth cannot hide from you. It is in the lap of truth that you have happened.

We are engaged here in the most important pusuit in history. The search for meaning. What is What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person?How did we come to be, and wha will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules this game, and how might we best play it?

In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.