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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.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
Essayist
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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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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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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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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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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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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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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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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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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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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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