It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas. - Miguel de Unamuno

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It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.

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About Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (29 September 1864 – 31 December 1936) was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher.

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Native Name: Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Alternative Names: Miguel Unamuno
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¡Qué ganas tengo de dormir, dormir, dormir sin fin, dormir por toda una eternidad y sin soñar!, ¡olvidando el sueño! Cuando me entierren, que sea en una caja hecha con aquellas seis tablas que tallé del viejo nogal, ¡pobrecito!, a cuya sombra jugué de niño, cuando empezaba a soñar… ¡Y entonces sí que creía en la vida perdurable! Es decir, me figuro ahora que creía entonces. Para un niño creer no es más que soñar.

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Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined.

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