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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.
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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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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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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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
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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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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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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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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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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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