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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
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
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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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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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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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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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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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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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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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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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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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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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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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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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The devil is an angel too.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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