Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
Miguel de Unamuno was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and later rector at the University of Salamanca.
Writer | Spanish
Born: 1864-09-29 in Bilbao, Spain
Died: December 31, 1936 in Salamanca, Spain
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
Miguel de Unamuno
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
Miguel de Unamuno
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
Miguel de Unamuno
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel de Unamuno
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
Miguel de Unamuno
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
Miguel de Unamuno
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel de Unamuno
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
Miguel de Unamuno
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
Miguel de Unamuno
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.
Miguel de Unamuno
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.
Miguel de Unamuno
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
Miguel de Unamuno
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
Miguel de Unamuno
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
Miguel de Unamuno
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
Miguel de Unamuno
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
Miguel de Unamuno