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Miguel de Unamuno

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Miguel de Unamuno is the kind of thinker who lets the words do the talking — and they talk volumes. Whether reflecting on Faith or Death, Miguel de Unamuno brought uncommon clarity to every subject. 17 of Miguel de Unamuno's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Faith, Death, Science, Love, and Sad. Perhaps their most recognizable line: "Science is a cemetery of dead ideas."

“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

God

All Quotes by 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

Happiness

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

Faith

“Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

Death

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

Love

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

Science

“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

God

“A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

Age

“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

Hope

“That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

Intelligence

“A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

Good

“Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

Science

“Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

Faith

“Man dies of cold, not of darkness.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

Death

“Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

Love