Miguel de Unamuno Ideas Quotations

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.

There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.

Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.

Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.