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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
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
University Teacher
Writer
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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Life
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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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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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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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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 pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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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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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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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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Is there anything more terrible than a call? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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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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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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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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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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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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