Miguel de Unamuno

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

"The greatest tragedy is indifference."

"Consciousness is a disease."

"We should try to be the parents of our futures rather than the offspring of our pasts."

"Life is a struggle, not a gift; it must be conquered."

"The immortality of the soul is not a problem to be solved; it is a problem to be lived."

"A man does not die when he should but when he can."

"Oblivion is the only true forgetting."

"The truth is not always beautiful, nor is beauty always true."

"Liberty is not given but conquered."

"Knowledge of all the formulas does not give you wisdom."

"Every man is a method, a progressive arrangement."

"It is better to believe in something that does not exist than to live a life without meaning."

"The pursuit of practical results has been the ruin of philosophy."

"To teach is to learn a second time."

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

"The fanatic is incorruptible; if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one."

"My work is to shatter the faith of men, and this is a pious work."

"Jealousy is a form of love."

"The man who says he is always learning is a liar; there is always something that escapes him."

"Action is the contemplation of the world."

"To dream the possible dream."

"Hell is the impossibility of reason."

"Our sufferings teach us to know our hearts."

"The greatest poverty is to be unloved."

"A war between brothers is the cruelest of wars."

"Fear is the parent of cruelty."

"Every man, at every moment, is a new creature."

"Culture is consciousness; it is civilization and refinement."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that the very existence of the world is a form of defiance."