Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.
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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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He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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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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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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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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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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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
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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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The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.
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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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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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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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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Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.
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Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.