174 Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.

Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

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