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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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.
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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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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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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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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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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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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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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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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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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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Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.
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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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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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