Life is doubt,And faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)
It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.
Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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.
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
Science says: “We must live ” and seeks the means of prolonging increasing facilitating and amplifying life of making it tolerable and acceptable wisdom says: “We must die ” and seeks how to make us die well.
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and furthermore it is to act as if He did exist.
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and furthermore it is to act as if He did exist.
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.
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
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.
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.