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Miguel De Unamuno Inspirational Quotes (61)

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Is there anything more terrible than a call? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.
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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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