Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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What is vanity but the longing to survive?
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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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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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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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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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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.
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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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What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
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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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It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
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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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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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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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Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
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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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My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Fear is the start of wisdom.
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.