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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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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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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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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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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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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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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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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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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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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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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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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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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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