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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.
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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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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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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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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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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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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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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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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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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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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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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The devil is an angel too.
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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 less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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