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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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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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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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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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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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