Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

The doctrines of Christian theology are a rhapsody of feigned and ill-invented nonsense

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.

In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?

To say revelation is to say, 'the Word became flesh...'

Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects; it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.

The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment.

Theology is Classified Superstition.

There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.

A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.

Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason.

So Marxism, Freudianism: any one of these things I think is an irrational cult. They're theology, so they're whatever you think of theology; I don't think much of it. In fact, in my view that's exactly the right analogy: notions like Marxism and Freudianism belong to the history of organized religion.

We are not accountable for the sins of "Adam".

The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.

Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority.

Where religion speaks, reason has only a right to hear.

Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.

Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church.

Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.

Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.

And speaking of sex, the Immaculate Conception does not mean Jesus was conceived in the absence of sex. It means Mary was conceived without Original Sin. That's all it has ever meant. And according to the tabloids, Mary is apparently the only one who can make such a claim. The Jesus thing is called virgin birth.