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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
Essayist
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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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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 supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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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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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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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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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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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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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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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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There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.
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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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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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