Miguel de Unamuno Believe Quotations

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

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

None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.

I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affections, feel His invisible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular Providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.