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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 less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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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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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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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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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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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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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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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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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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