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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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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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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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The devil is an angel too.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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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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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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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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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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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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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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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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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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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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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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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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