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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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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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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
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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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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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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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There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.
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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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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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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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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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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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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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