Miguel de Unamuno on Easter
1864–1936 Spain
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Only those who doubt really believe, and those who do not doubt are neither tempted against their faith nor do they truly believe.
The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho (1914)
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
Those who do not doubt do not believe. Faith is maintained by resolving doubts, and again resolving those further doubts which are suggested by the resolution of previous doubts.
The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho (1914)
Only the feeble resign themselves to final death and substitute some other desire for the longing for personal immortality. In the strong the zeal for perpetuity overrides the doubt of realizing it, and their superabundance of life overflows upon the other side of death.
Virtue, therefore, is not based upon dogma, but dogma upon virtue, and it is not faith that creates martyrs but martyrs who create faith.
Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
Faith feels itself secure neither with universal consent, nor with tradition, nor with authority. It seeks support of its enemy, reason.