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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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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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There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.
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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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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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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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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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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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