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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
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
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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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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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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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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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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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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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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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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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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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It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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