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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
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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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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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.
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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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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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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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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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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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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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