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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
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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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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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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The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
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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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Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.
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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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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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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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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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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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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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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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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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