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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
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
University Teacher
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
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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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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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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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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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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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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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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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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