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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
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Politician
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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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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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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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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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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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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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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What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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