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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.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
Essayist
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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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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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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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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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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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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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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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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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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