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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.

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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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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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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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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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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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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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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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