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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
Yeast
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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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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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My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.
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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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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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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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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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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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