Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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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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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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Men shout to avoid listening to one another.
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What is vanity but the longing to survive?
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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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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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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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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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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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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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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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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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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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Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
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Fear is the start of wisdom.