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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
Essayist
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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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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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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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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Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.
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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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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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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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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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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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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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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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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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