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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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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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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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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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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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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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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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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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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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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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