A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
– Miguel de Unamuno
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
– Miguel de Unamuno
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
– Miguel de Unamuno
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.
– Miguel de Unamuno
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
– Miguel de Unamuno
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
– Miguel de Unamuno
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
– Miguel de Unamuno
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
– Miguel de Unamuno
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
– Miguel de Unamuno
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
– Miguel de Unamuno
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
– Miguel de Unamuno
Science says: We must live, and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: We must die, and seeks how to make us die well.
– Miguel de Unamuno
Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
– Miguel de Unamuno
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
– Miguel de Unamuno
The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
– 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
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
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
– Miguel de Unamuno
To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
– 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
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
– Miguel de Unamuno
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
– Miguel de Unamuno
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
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
– Miguel de Unamuno
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
– Miguel de Unamuno
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
– Miguel de Unamuno
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.
– Miguel de Unamuno
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
– Miguel de Unamuno
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.