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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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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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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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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 pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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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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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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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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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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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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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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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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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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