Explore Quotes by Miguel De Unamuno

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

It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

What is vanity but the longing to survive?

The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

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

Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

My religion is searching for the truth in life and life in the truth, though knowing that I do not have to find it while I live; my religion is fighting incessantly and tirelessly with the unknown.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

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

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

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

Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.

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

From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.

The devil is an angel too.

The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.

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.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.