Quote #24
I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a 'because,' but rather an 'in order to.'
More from Miguel de Unamuno
- And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
- Let us go on committing suicide by working among our people, and let them dream life just as the lake dreams the sky.
- Warmth, warmth, more warmth! for we are dying of cold and not of darkness. It is not the night that kills, but the frost.
- One of those leaders of what they call the social revolution has said that religion is the opiate of the people. Opium...opium...opium, yes…
- The intellectual world is divided into two classes - dilettantes, on the one hand, and pedants, on the other.
- Besos que vienen riendo, luego llorando se van, y en ellos se va la vida, que nunca mas volvera.
- To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
- Contra los valores afectivos no valen razones, porque las razones no son nada mas que razones, es decir, ni siquiera verdad.