Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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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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Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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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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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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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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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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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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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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It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
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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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Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
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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 fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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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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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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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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Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.
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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.