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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
Essayist
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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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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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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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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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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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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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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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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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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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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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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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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