Unamuno, Miguel De quotes
1864-1936 Spanish Philosophical WriterLife is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Unamuno, Miguel De
Doubt
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
Unamuno, Miguel De
Despair
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
Unamuno, Miguel De
Fascism
We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
Unamuno, Miguel De
God
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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Habit
For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth
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Love
To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
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Pity
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.
Unamuno, Miguel De
Skepticism
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.
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Suffering
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
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Science and Scientists
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid -- in which case all comment is superfluous -- or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
Unamuno, Miguel De
Argument
The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
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Consciousness
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.
Unamuno, Miguel De
Vanity