Miguel de Unamuno

"To live is to contradict oneself."

"The need to mythologize is stronger than the need to know."

"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."

"We are dying, and we don't even know it."

"The essence of tragedy is the struggle, not the fall."

"Truth is that which does not change; it is eternal."

"The secret of life is to have no secret at all."

"Love is the bridge between two souls."

"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

"The more you know, the more you realize how little you understand."

"Beauty is the visible expression of truth."

"I do not believe that God is indifferent to the suffering of his creatures."

"Passion is the soil in which all that is noble and true grows."

"The price of progress is eternal dissatisfaction."

"Art is a protest against the dying of the light."

"He who does not live with some illusion is not fit to live."

"The soul finds beauty only in the mind."

"To renounce the use of arms is to renounce power."

"Doubt is the father of progress."

"The man who is not willing to die for something is not fit to live."

"Temperance should not be confused with mediocrity."

"The voice of the people is the voice of God."

"Sincerity is the first step toward virtue."

"Every moment is eternity for those who truly live."

"The man who goes furthest is often the one who is willing to do and dare."

"Justice without love is tyranny."

"The human spirit is the beginning of all invention."

"War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading."

"A man must exercise his faculties in a community with other men."