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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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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 truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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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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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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