Explore Quotes by Miguel De Unamuno

Consciousness is a disease.

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

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

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.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

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.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

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

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

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.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

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.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.