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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
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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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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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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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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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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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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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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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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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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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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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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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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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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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The devil is an angel too.
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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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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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