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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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Yeast
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People
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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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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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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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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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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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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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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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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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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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The devil is an angel too.
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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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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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