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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
Essayist
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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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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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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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The devil is an angel too.
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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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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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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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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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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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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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The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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