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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.
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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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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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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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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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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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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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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The devil is an angel too.
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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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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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