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Ian O’Shaughnessy

Quotes · Miguel De Unamuno

“For living is one thing and knowing is another; and, as we shall see, perhaps there is such an opposition between the two that we may say that everything vital is anti-rational, not merely irrational, and that everything rational is anti-vital. And this is the basis of the tragic sense of life.”

– Miguel De Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life, trans. J.E. Crawford Flitch, Dover Publications, 1954, pg. 34.

From volume III of the file · Book · 20th century

Themes: philosophy · reason & truth