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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
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
University Teacher
Writer
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
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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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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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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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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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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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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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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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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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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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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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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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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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