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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.

Miguel de Unamuno

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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
University Teacher
Writer
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
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The devil is an angel too.
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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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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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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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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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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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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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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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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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Is there anything more terrible than a call? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.
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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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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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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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