Miguel de Unamuno
“Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory, and memory in its turn begets hope.”
“To believe in God is to long for His existence and, further, it is to act as if He existed.”
“The intellectual world is divided into two classes — dilettantes, on the one hand, and pedants, on the other.”
“The real sin — perhaps it is a sin against the Holy Ghost for which there is no remission — is the sin of heresy, the sin of thinking for oneself.”
“There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.”
“May we not imagine that possibly this earthly life of ours is to the other life what sleeping is to waking? May not all our life be a dream and death an awakening?”
“It has often been said that every man who has suffered misfortunes prefers to be himself, even with his misfortunes, rather than to be someone else without them.”
“Apart from the fact there is no normal standard of health, nobody has proved that man is necessarily cheerful by nature.”
“We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important.”
“Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.”
“Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.”
“To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.”
“Warmth, warmth, more warmth! for we are dying of cold and not of darkness. It is not the night that kills, but the frost.”
“Man is said to be a reasoning animal... More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep.”
“Consciousness is a disease.”
“We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.”
“The devil is an angel too.”
“Isolation is the worst possible counselor.”
“It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”
“Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.”