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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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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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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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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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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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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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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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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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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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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 truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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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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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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