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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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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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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 truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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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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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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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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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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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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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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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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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.
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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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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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There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
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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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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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