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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
Essayist
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
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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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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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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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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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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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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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The devil is an angel too.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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