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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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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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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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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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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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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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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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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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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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