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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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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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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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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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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The devil is an angel too.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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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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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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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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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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