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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
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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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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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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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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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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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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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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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