Miguel de Unamuno
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.Collection: Art
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.Collection: Death
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.Collection: Love
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.Collection: Death
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.Collection: Faith
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.Collection: Death
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.Collection: Science
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Hope
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.Collection: Intelligence
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
Consciousness is a disease.
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.
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.
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
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.
We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by travelingCollection: Reading
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.Collection: Past
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.Collection: Life
My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.Collection: People
Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.Collection: Believe
There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.Collection: People
Men shout to avoid listening to one another.Collection: Men
Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.Collection: Faults
At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and RightCollection: Lying
Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")Collection: Emotional
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.Collection: Science
There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.Collection: Names
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.Collection: Lying
Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.Collection: Men
Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?Collection: Art
There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.Collection: School
The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.Collection: Pessimism
I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.Collection: Order
Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.Collection: Truth