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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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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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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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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.
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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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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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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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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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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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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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Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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