Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

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

Fear is the start of wisdom.

They will conquer but they will not convince.

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.

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 for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

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

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

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

“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”

“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?”