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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.
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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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
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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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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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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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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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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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