Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

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

Love, Sad, Able

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno

Love, Child, Parent

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
Miguel de Unamuno

Death, Love, Age

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

True, Him, Vision

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

Good, Fool, Talking

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.
Miguel de Unamuno

God, Yourself, May

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.
Miguel de Unamuno

Love, Happiness, True

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
Miguel de Unamuno

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

Find, Solitude, Ourselves

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

Nothing, Person, Himself

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

Faith, Create, Martyrs

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

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
Miguel de Unamuno

Death, Darkness, Cold

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
Miguel de Unamuno

Faith, Doubt, Dead

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel de Unamuno

Life, Faith, Death

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

Life, Suffering, Makes

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.
Miguel de Unamuno

Mean, Him, Found

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
Miguel de Unamuno

Fall, Begin, Habit

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
Miguel de Unamuno

Art, Meaning, Sensations

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.
Miguel de Unamuno

Hope, Fight, Destiny

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

Hate, Else, Above

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

Greatest, Face, Individual

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
Miguel de Unamuno

Rather, Anyone, Memory

Consciousness is a disease.
Miguel de Unamuno

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
Miguel de Unamuno

Human, Natural, Beliefs

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Born: September 29, 1864

Died: December 31, 1936

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