Quotes from Miguel de Unamuno

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

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

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

For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth

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

The devil is an angel too.

The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

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.

The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.

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

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

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

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Consciousness is a disease.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to."

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

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

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 in the God idea, not God himself.

Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

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.