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The devil is an angel too.

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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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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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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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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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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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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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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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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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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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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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.
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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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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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