Miguel De Unamuno Quotes

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

~ Miguel De Unamuno

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

~ Miguel De Unamuno

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.

~ Miguel De Unamuno

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

~ Miguel De Unamuno

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?

~ Miguel De Unamuno

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 reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly — but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.

~ Miguel De Unamuno

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

~ Miguel De Unamuno

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 reason—because it does not avail.

~ Miguel De Unamuno

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

~ Miguel De Unamuno

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

~ Miguel De Unamuno

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

~ Miguel De Unamuno

Fear is the start of wisdom.

~ 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

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

~ Miguel De Unamuno

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

~ Miguel De Unamuno

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

~ Miguel De Unamuno

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

~ 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

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

~ Miguel De Unamuno

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

~ Miguel De Unamuno

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

~ Miguel De Unamuno