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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
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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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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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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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 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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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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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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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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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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We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
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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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