Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

They will conquer but they will not convince.

Fear is the start of wisdom.

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and furthermore it is to act as if He did exist.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

A pedant who beheld Solon weeping for the death of a son said to him, ‘Why do you weep thus, if weeping avails nothing?’ And the sage answered him, ‘Precisely for that reason—because it does not avail.

Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly — but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.