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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
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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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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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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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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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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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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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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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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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 devil is an angel too.
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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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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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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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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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