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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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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Philosopher
Playwright
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Politician
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More quotes by Miguel de Unamuno
Is there anything more terrible than a call? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.
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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
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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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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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 is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
Miguel de Unamuno
Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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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.
Miguel de Unamuno
Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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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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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.
Miguel de Unamuno
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
Miguel de Unamuno
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
Miguel de Unamuno
Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
Miguel de Unamuno
Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
Miguel de Unamuno
It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.
Miguel de Unamuno
Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
Miguel de Unamuno
While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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