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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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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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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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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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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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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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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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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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The devil is an angel too.
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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.
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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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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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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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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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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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