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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
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Politician
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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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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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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The devil is an angel too.
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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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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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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.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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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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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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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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