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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
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Writer
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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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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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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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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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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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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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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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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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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