174 Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno

"A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man."

"Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God."

"I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affections, feel His invisible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular Providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny."

"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion."

"Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")"

"It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love."

"What is vanity but the longing to survive?"

"There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish."

"We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past."

"Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning."