# Miguel de Unamuno's best quotes

From the 'you will win, but you will not convince' of Salamanca to Mist and The Tragic Sense of Life: Unamuno's best-known lines with their source, and one that is only attributed to him.

- 9 votes · 13 items
- Oct 9, 2019 · temporada_lenta
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## Top 13

1. **Spain hurts me in the very core of my heart.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Letter of November 1923 to a Spaniard living in Buenos Aires.
2. **Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Tragic Sense of Life, chapter VII.
3. **What you can't express, you don't know.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Meditaciones y ensayos espirituales.
4. **My motto is: veritas prius pace, truth before peace.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Written in 1909.
5. **We must seek the truth, not the reason, of things. And truth is sought with humility.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Private diary (1897).
6. **To believe in God is, in a way, to create him.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — From his essays on faith.
7. **Let us try to be parents of our future rather than children of our past.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Collected in anthologies of his writings.
8. **And what is love? Who has ever defined love? Love defined stops being love.** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Mist, chapter IV.
9. **You will win, but you will not convince.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Speech in the main hall of the University of Salamanca, 12 October 1936.
10. **Feel the thought, think the feeling.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Line from the poem 'Credo poético'.
11. **Man's life on earth is struggle, and struggle first and foremost with himself.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Speech on the centenary of Darwin's birth, Valencia, 22 February 1909.
12. **The blood of my spirit is my language. And my homeland is wherever it is heard.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lines from his poetry.
13. **I don't know what it's about, but I'm against it.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Attributed: according to the anecdote, he said it on arriving at a meeting.

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