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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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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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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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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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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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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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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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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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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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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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The devil is an angel too.
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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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