Quote #19
Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
More from Miguel de Unamuno
- To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
- To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
- True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
- The intellectual world is divided into two classes - dilettantes, on the one hand, and pedants, on the other.
- La verdadera ciencia ensena, por encima de todo, a dudar y a ser ignorante.
- Warmth, warmth, more warmth! for we are dying of cold and not of darkness. It is not the night that kills, but the frost.
- Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
- And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.