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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
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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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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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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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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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
Miguel de Unamuno
At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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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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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.
Miguel de Unamuno
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
Miguel de Unamuno
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
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