Miguel de Unamuno Quotes & Sayings

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

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

“Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.”

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

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

“The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.”

“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.”

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

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

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