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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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The devil is an angel too.
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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 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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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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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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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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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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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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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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Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.
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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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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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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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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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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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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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