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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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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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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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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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What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.
Miguel de Unamuno
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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The devil is an angel too.
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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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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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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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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
Miguel de Unamuno
The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
Miguel de Unamuno
From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
Miguel de Unamuno
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
Miguel de Unamuno
