Top 15 Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

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.

Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.

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