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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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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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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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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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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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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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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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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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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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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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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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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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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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