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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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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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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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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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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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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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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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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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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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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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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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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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