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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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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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.
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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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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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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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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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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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The devil is an angel too.
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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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