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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
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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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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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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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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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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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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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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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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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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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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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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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