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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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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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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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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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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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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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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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The devil is an angel too.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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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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