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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
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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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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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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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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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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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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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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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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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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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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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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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
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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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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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