Miguel de Unamuno Quotations | Page 2

Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.

May God deny you peace but give you glory!

The will, the will not ever to die, the refusal to resign oneself to death, ceaselessly builds the house of life while the keen blasts and icy winds of reason unceasingly batter at the structure and beat it down.

Was man made for science, or was science made for man?

Fear is the start of wisdom.

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence, and furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.

Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.

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