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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 in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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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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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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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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