Miguel de Unamuno Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

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

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

An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

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

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

May God deny you peace but give you glory!

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

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.

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

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

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

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

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

It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.

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