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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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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 truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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The devil is an angel too.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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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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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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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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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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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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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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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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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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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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