174 Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno

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

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

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)

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.

Cuando la vio gozar, sufriendo al darle su primer hijo, es cuando comprendió cómo es el amor más fuerte que la vida y que la muerte, y domina la discordia de estas; cómo el amor hace morirse a la vida y vivir la muerte; cómo él vivía ahora la muerte de su Rosa y se moría en su propia vida.

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.

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

Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.