Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven and earth, a Consciousness or Conscience of the Universe, but that even so it would not be sufficient reason to assume that the soul of every man was immortal in the traditional and concrete sense. And he replied, "Then what good is God?
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
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The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
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There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.
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Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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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.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Men shout to avoid listening to one another.
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It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.
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Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.