Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.