“Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.”
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Famous Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
“There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.”
Source: Mist: A Tragicomic Novel
Source: Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 3: Our Lord Don Quixote
“None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.”
Source: The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations
“Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.”
Source: Essays and Soliloquies
Source: The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations
Source: The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations
“To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.”
“Was man made for science, or was science made for man?”
Source: Tragic Sense of Life
“May God deny you peace but give you glory!”
Source: Tragic Sense of Life
Source: The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations
Source: The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations
“The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.”
“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.”
Source: The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations
“A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.”
“A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.”
“Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.”
Source: Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 3: Our Lord Don Quixote
Source: Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 3: Our Lord Don Quixote
Source: Tragic Sense of Life
“If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.”
Source: Essays and Soliloquies
Source: Essays and Soliloquies
“Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.”
Source: Tragic Sense of Life
“Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.”
“That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.”
Source: The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations
Source: Tragic Sense of Life
“Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.”
“We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.”
Source: Tragic Sense of Life
Source: Tragic Sense of Life
“Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.”
Source: Essays and Soliloquies
“My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.”
Source: Mist Niebla: A Tragicomic Novel
Source: Tragic Sense of Life