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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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
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Playwright
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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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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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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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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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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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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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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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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My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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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.
Miguel de Unamuno
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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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.
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