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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
Essayist
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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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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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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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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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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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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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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