"Del sentimiento trágico de la vida" (The Tragic Sense of Life) by Miguel de Unamuno, Trans. J. E. Crawford
"Yes, perhaps, as the Sage says, "nothing worthy proving can be
proven, nor yet disproven"; but can we restrain that instinct which urges
man to wish to know, and above all to wish to know the things which may conduce
to life, to eternal life? Eternal life, not eternal knowledge, as the
Alexandrian gnostic said. 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."
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