174 Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno

The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.

An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.

My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

I cannot imagine how anyone can go through life without carrying the memories of his childhood on the surface of his soul.

And in touching your own nothingness, in not feeling your permanent base, in not reaching your own infinity, still less your own eternity, you will have a whole-hearted pity for yourself, and you will burn with a sorrowful love for yourself – a love that will consume your so-called self-love, which is merely a species of sensual self-delectation, the self-enjoyment, as it were, of the flesh of your soul.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling.