Miguel de Unamuno Quote

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

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, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and later rector at the University of Salamanca.
His major philosophical essay was The Tragic Sense of Life (1912), and his most famous novel were Abel Sánchez: The History of a Passion (1917), a modern exploration of the Cain and Abel story, and Mist (1914), which Literary Encyclopedia calls "the most acclaimed Spanish Modernist novel".