Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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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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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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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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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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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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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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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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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
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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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It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
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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.
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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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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 is vanity but the longing to survive?
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Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.