Quotes by "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.

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

They will conquer, but they will not convince.

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

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.

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

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)

Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

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

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

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

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

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