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We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.
— Miguel De Unamuno
If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.
— Miguel De Unamuno
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Because Augustus was not a hiker, but a walker of life
— Miguel De Unamuno
These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
— Miguel De Unamuno
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
— Miguel De Unamuno
The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)
— Miguel De Unamuno
My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.
— Miguel De Unamuno
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
— Miguel De Unamuno
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
Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
— Miguel De Unamuno
There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.
— Miguel De Unamuno
It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Men shout to avoid listening to one another.
— Miguel De Unamuno
The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
— Miguel De Unamuno
What is vanity but the longing to survive?
— Miguel De Unamuno
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.
— Miguel De Unamuno
There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
— Miguel De Unamuno
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.
— Miguel De Unamuno
That which the fascists hate, above all else, is intelligence.
— Miguel De Unamuno
I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
— Miguel De Unamuno
The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
— Miguel De Unamuno
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
— Miguel De Unamuno
May God deny you peace but give you glory!
— Miguel De Unamuno
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
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
— Miguel De Unamuno
All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.
— Miguel De Unamuno
And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
— Miguel De Unamuno
The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Warmth, warmth, more warmth! For we are dying of cold and not darkness. It is not the night that kills, but the frost.
— Miguel De Unamuno
It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
— Miguel De Unamuno
From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Sometimes to be silent is to lie.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Fear is the start of wisdom.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
— Miguel De Unamuno
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only ... with the idea God has of you.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Consciousness is a disease.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
— Miguel De Unamuno
The devil is an angel too.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
— Miguel De Unamuno
Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
— Miguel De Unamuno
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence, and furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Life is doubt,And faith without doubt is nothing but death. — Miguel De Unamuno
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
— Miguel De Unamuno
An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
— Miguel De Unamuno
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
The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
— Miguel De Unamuno
A faith which does not doubt is a dead faith.
— Miguel De Unamuno
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
— Miguel De Unamuno
The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual") — Miguel De Unamuno
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
— Miguel De Unamuno
None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.
— Miguel De Unamuno
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
— Miguel De Unamuno
To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
— Miguel De Unamuno
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what they're talking about.
— Miguel De Unamuno
The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
— Miguel De Unamuno
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.
— Miguel De Unamuno
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
The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.
— Miguel De Unamuno
The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
— Miguel De Unamuno
While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Faith is, before all and above all, wishing God may exist.
— Miguel De Unamuno