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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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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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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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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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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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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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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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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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.
Miguel de Unamuno
Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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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 chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
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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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