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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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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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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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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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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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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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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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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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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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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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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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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
Miguel de Unamuno
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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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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