Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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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.
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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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What is vanity but the longing to survive?
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
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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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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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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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What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.
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Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
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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 Right
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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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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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.