Miguel de Unamuno famous quotes

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Love #Funny #Dream

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Love #Life #Heartbreak

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Mean #Thinking #Doubt

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Single #Brother #Loneliness

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Roots #Personality #Suffering

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Reading #Racism #Fascism

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Fall #Habit

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Past #Parent #Trying

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly — but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Cat #Men #Animal

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Life #Motivational #Encouragement

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
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Lying #Winning #Order

My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#People #Yeast #Bread

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Faith #Doubt #Doe

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Art

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.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#God #Order #Giving

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Inspirational #Motivational #Friendship

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Humor #Talking #Fool

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Life #Faith #Doubt

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Love #Men #Suffering

Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Men #Made

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Believe #Motive #Pretext

Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Depressing #Evil #Consciousness

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Grief #Order #Amusement

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Fate #Men #Unjust

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Memories #Life Is #Converting

Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Isolation #Worst #Counselor

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
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Love #Daughter #Mother

From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Memories #Vision #Our Future

The devil is an angel too.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Angel #Devil

The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Fall #Habit #Neighbor

My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Writing #Men #Sake

I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affections, feel His invisible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular Providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Believe #Destiny #Hands

Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Philosophy #Science #Technology

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Science #Technology #Alchemist

None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Believe #Too Much #Littles

Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Art #Philosophy #Ideas

I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Order #Theology

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.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Inspire #Police #Atheism

There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Names #Ideas #People

Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Matter #May #Lawyer

Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Soul #Atheism #Criticism

Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Lying #Men #Thinking

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence, and furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Believe #Believe In God #Existence

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Men #Facts #Phantoms

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.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Optimistic #Ideas #Optimism

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?
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Men #Talking #Heaven

The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Pessimism #Said #Protest

Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Dream #Art #Philosophy

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Spirit #Pity

The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Enemy #Truth Is #Reason