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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.
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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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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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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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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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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