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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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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More quotes by Miguel de Unamuno
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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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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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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At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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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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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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Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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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.
Miguel de Unamuno
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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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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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.
Miguel de Unamuno
Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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