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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
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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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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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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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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
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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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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.
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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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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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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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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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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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