Miguel De Unamuno Quotes

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.

My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

Isolation is the worst possible counselor.

Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.

What is vanity but the longing to survive?

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.

Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.

It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.

The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.

Consciousness is a disease.

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.