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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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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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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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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.
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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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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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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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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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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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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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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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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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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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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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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.
Miguel de Unamuno
My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
Miguel de Unamuno
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
Miguel de Unamuno
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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