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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
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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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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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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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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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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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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.
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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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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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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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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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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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