Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

The scientist insists on verification; the religious theologian does not; the philosopher sometimes does and sometimes does not

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover.

I think that there's a strain in journalism that believes that anyone who surrenders him- or herself to faith and to belief necessarily checks reason and rationality at the door.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.