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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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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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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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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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The devil is an angel too.
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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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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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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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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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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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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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