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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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My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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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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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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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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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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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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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 is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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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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