Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.
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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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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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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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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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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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Men shout to avoid listening to one another.
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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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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Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.
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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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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.