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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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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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The devil is an angel too.
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The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
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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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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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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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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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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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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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Was man made for science, or was science made for 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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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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