Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. Miguel de Unamuno More Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno More Quotes From Miguel de Unamuno Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well. Miguel de Unamuno science mean death My religion is searching for the truth in life and life in the truth, though knowing that I do not have to find it while I live; my religion is fighting incessantly and tirelessly with the unknown. Miguel de Unamuno truth philosophy life The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism. Miguel de Unamuno pessimism protest said All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question. Miguel de Unamuno goal science knowledge It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas. Miguel de Unamuno optimism optimistic ideas Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them. Miguel de Unamuno issues science ideas To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most. Miguel de Unamuno pity-love spirit love When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid -- in which case all comment is superfluous -- or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem. Miguel de Unamuno Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them. Miguel de Unamuno some-people you believe people