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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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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
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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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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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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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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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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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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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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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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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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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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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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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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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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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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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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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