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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
Miguel Unamuno
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Abstention
Men
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Negation
Affirmation
Everywhere
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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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.
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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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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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We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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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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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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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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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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