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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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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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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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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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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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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 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 he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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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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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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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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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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We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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The devil is an angel too.
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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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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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