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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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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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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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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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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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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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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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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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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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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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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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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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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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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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