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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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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 pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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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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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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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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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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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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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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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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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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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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