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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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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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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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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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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 not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.
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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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The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
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Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.
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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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