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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
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Playwright
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Politician
University Teacher
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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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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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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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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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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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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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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