174 Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno

"We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best."

"Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts."

"There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker."

"Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself."

"The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present."

"It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand."

"The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history."

"Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life."

"Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes."

"Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides."