Quotes from Miguel de Unamuno

Pues porque a la gente le gusta la conversación por la conversación misma, aunque no diga nada

el amor es el ritmo. La ciencia del ritmo son las matemáticas; la expresión sensible del amor es la música.

Nos miramos a los ojos con una de esas miradas que desnudan las almas, nos vimos éstas al desnudo

Those who say they believe in God, and yet neither love nor fear him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe inGod but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair, even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.

Lay ley es siempre triste, don Augusto

Eso pasa mucho; el mote mismo que damos a alguien nos suena muy de otro modo cuando se lo oímos a otro

Si vas a detenerte con cada perro que te salga a ladrar al camino, nunca llegarás al fin de él». No sirve itrarle piedras. No le hagas caso.

Pero ¡cuántas mujeres hermosas hay en este mundo, Dios mío! Casi todas. ¡Gracias, Señor, gracias; gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam! ¡Tu gloria es la hermosura de la mujer, Señor!

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right

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

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.

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

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

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

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly — but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.

Y qué es amor? ¿Quién definió el amor? Amor definido deja de serlo...

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

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

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

Hasta que se llora de veras no se sabe si se tiene o no alma.

Warmth, warmth, more warmth! For we are dying of cold and not darkness. It is not the night that kills, but the frost.

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")