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Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
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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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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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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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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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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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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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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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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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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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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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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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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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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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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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The devil is an angel too.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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