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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 pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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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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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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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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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.
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