Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

They will conquer but they will not convince.
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
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
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and furthermore it is to act as if He did exist.
Miguel de Unamuno
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
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.
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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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
Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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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.
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If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.
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It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.
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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
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
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)
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.
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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
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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Life is doubt,And faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel de Unamuno