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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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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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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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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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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The devil is an angel too.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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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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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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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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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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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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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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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.
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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.
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