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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
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.
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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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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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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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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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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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