Miguel de Unamuno

"The practical man is a man of traditions."

"Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the God idea, not in God himself."

"It is often a man's imagination that makes him happy."

"The greatest tragedy of the individual is his solitude."

"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to."

"The unique thing about life is that it does not know itself until it has become conscious of itself."

"Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality."

"To believe in God is to long for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He existed."

"The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference."

"The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing."

"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion."

"Conquer yourself rather than the world."

"There is some obscure corner of the universe which we do not know."

"The man who says that it is not worth while to fight for his ideals is a coward."

"What is called the philosophy of history is not the history of philosophy."

"He who believes in nothing has lost everything."

"Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old."

"Despair is the conclusion of the fool."

"True it is that there are some who do not desire to change."

"The greatest luxury is justice."

"The sole and unique tragedy is consciousness."

"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."

"Art is the revelation of the human soul."

"A man does not die from love or from grief; one dies from solitude."

"Work is a curse. That is why I have never worked."

"Wisdom is not found in books alone."

"The sentiment of the tragic is the sentiment of the sublime."

"Love seeks not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care."

"Teaching is learning."

"Man's chief concern is to know himself."