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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
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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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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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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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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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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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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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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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.
Miguel de Unamuno
The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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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
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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