Miguel de Unamuno

"Science is a cemetery of dead ideas."

"Consciousness is a disease."

"The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common."

"We are dying slowly if we are not changing."

"The truth is that we live only by dying, that we are always dying, and that dying is living."

"True wisdom consists in knowing how to distinguish between what is really of importance and what only appears so."

"Better to illude oneself and live happily than to see the truth and perish from despair."

"The problem of Spain is the problem of European civilization itself."

"Pity is akin to love; they are both born of compassion."

"Work gives form to prayer."

"Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness."

"The sense of mortality teaches us that we are not masters of fate, and this knowledge humbles us."

"Art should surprise, provoke, and ultimately transform the viewer's perception."

"To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world."

"History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes with what came before."

"The greatest courage is to say 'I do not know.'"

"Love is not finding a perfect person but seeing an imperfect person perfectly."

"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition."

"To believe is to create, and to create is to live."

"Success is not the opposite of failure; it is built upon the ruins of failed attempts."

"The family is the unit of human society, and without it there is no civilization."

"Music is the art form closest to the expression of the soul."

"Patience is not passive; it is the active waiting for what is true."

"The world is saved by beauty, not by arguments."

"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality."

"To live is to think; to think is to suffer."

"Real strength lies not in physical power but in moral conviction."

"A man without doubt is a man without faith."

"The purpose of education is to awaken the mind to its own possibilities."

"Justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is weakness."