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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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There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.
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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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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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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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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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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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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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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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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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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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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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The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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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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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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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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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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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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