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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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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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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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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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We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
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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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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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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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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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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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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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