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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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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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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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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates 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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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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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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Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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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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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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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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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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