Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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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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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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Men shout to avoid listening to one another.
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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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It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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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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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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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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The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
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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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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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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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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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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.
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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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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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling