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

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
Miguel de Unamuno

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.
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

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
Miguel de Unamuno

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
Miguel de Unamuno

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
Miguel de Unamuno

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
Miguel de Unamuno

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.
Miguel de Unamuno

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

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Miguel de Unamuno