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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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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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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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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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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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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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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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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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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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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 aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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