More from Miguel de Unamuno

  1. Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
  2. The intellectual world is divided into two classes - dilettantes, on the one hand, and pedants, on the other.
  3. To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
  4. Warmth, warmth, more warmth! for we are dying of cold and not of darkness. It is not the night that kills, but the frost.
  5. True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
  6. And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
  7. La verdadera ciencia ensena, por encima de todo, a dudar y a ser ignorante.
  8. I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a 'because,' but rather an 'in order to.'

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