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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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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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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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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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The devil is an angel too.
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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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It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates 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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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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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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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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