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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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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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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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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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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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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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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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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.
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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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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.
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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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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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