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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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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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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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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.
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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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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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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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