Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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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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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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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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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.
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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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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
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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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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven and earth, a Consciousness or Conscience of the Universe, but that even so it would not be sufficient reason to assume that the soul of every man was immortal in the traditional and concrete sense. And he replied, "Then what good is God?
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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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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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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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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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 is vanity but the longing to survive?
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.