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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
Essayist
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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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Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.
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The devil is an angel too.
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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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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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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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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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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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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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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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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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