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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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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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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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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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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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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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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 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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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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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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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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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 truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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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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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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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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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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