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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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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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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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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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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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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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