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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
Playwright
Poet
Politician
University Teacher
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
Agitate
Yeast
Disturb
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Selling
Bread
People
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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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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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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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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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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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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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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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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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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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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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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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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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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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