Quote #3
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
More from Miguel de Unamuno
- There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.
- Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
- The devil is an angel too.
- Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.
- It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
- These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
- Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
- We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.