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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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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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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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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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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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Is there anything more terrible than a call? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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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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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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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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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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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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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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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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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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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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