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Miguel de Unamuno Quotes: 9

  • 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.

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

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

  • Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

  • 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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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?

    Tragic Sense of Life