Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
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There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.
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The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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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.
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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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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Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.
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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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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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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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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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For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth
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Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.
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Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together, when through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath the common yoke of a common grief. It is then that they know one another and feel one another and feel with one another in their common anguish, and so they pity one another and love one another.
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What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
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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.