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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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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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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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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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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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Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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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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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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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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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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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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The devil is an angel too.
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