Miguel de Unamuno

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right

Yes, yes, I see it all! _ an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist _ for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

Life is doubt,And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

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.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

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

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

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

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.

They will conquer but they will not convince.