Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno

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

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

“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 ...”

“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...”

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

“It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.”

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

“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 industria...”

“Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than re...”

“Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.”

“A pedant who beheld Solon weeping for the death of a son said to him, Why do you weep thus, if weeping avails nothing? And the sage answered him, Precisely for that reasonbecause it does not avail.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Man dies of cold, not of darkness.”

“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...”

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

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