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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.
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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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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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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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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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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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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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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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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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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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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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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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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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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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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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