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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
Literary Critic
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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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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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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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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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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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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The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
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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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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.
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