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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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The devil is an angel too.
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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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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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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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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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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.
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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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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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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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