Miguel de Unamuno — Spanish Educator born on September 29, 1864, died on December 31, 1936

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, and Greek professor, and later rector at the University of Salamanca... (wikipedia)

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.