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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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Life
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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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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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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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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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.
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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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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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