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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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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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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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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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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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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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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 the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.
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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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