Miguel de Unamuno

“I must not throw away my village to win my soul.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.

— Miguel de Unamuno

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.

— Miguel de Unamuno

“Sometimes to be silent is to lie.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

“Não tenho medo das palavras, mas calo-me.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

Isolation is the worst possible counselor.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

— Miguel de Unamuno

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

— Miguel de Unamuno

“A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what they're talking about.”

— Miguel De Unamuno

None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

“El amor precede al conocimiento, y éste mata a aquél.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

— 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…

— Miguel de Unamuno

“«Si vas a detenerte con cada perro que te salga a ladrar al camino, nunca llegarás al fin de él». No sirve…

— Miguel de Unamuno

Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the…

— 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…

— Miguel de Unamuno

“Aquel hombre no podía ser de su mujer, porque no era de sí mismo, dueño de sí, sino a la vez un…

— Miguel de Unamuno

My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention…

— Miguel de Unamuno

Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that…

— Miguel de Unamuno

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope…

— Miguel de Unamuno

Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered…

— 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,…

— Miguel De Unamuno

“Memory is the basis of individual personality, just as tradition is the basis of the collective personality of a people. We live…

— Miguel de Unamuno

For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once…

— Miguel de Unamuno

I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and…

— Miguel de Unamuno

He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in…

— Miguel de Unamuno

Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven…

— 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.…

— Miguel de Unamuno

“¡Dios no os de paz y si gloria!”

— Miguel de Unamuno

“A faith which does not doubt is a dead faith.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

— Miguel De Unamuno

Education quotes, Failure quotes, Skepticism

— Miguel De Unamuno

“Because Augustus was not a hiker, but a walker of life”

— Miguel de Unamuno

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

— Miguel de Unamuno

The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

— Miguel de Unamuno

“Hasta que se llora de veras no se sabe si se tiene o no alma.”

— Miguel de Unamuno