Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.

Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.

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

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

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

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

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

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

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

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.

Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")

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

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

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

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