Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

Miguel de Unamuno (36)

Birth:	29th September, 1864
Death:	31st December, 1936
Nationality:	Spanish
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Philosopher, Poet, Playwriter

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  Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

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• 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.

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• Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

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• If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

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• What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

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• A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

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

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

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• Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

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• Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

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• A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

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• The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

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• True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

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• Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

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• Science says: “We must live,” and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable; wisdom says: “We must die,” and seeks how to make us die well.

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• The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

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

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• I had dreamed of being at the Olympics since I was 7 years old.

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• Your neighbor’s vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

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

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