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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
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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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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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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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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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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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 devil is an angel too.
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There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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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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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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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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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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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
Miguel de Unamuno
