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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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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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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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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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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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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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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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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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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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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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