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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
Essayist
Literary Critic
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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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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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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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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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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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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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.
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