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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
Essayist
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
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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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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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The devil is an angel too.
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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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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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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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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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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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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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