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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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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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The devil is an angel too.
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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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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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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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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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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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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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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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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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