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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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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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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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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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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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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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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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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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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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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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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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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