174 Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno

There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

Consciousness is a disease.

Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together, when through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath the common yoke of a common grief. It is then that they know one another and feel one another and feel with one another in their common anguish, and so they pity one another and love one another.

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

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

Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.