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

— Miguel de Unamuno

A pedant who beheld Solon weeping for the death of a son said to him, ‘Why do you weep thus, if weeping avails nothing?’ And the sage answered him, ‘Precisely for that reason—because it does not avail.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)

— Miguel de Unamuno

Fear is the start of wisdom.

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.

— Miguel de Unamuno

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.

— Miguel de Unamuno