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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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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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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 less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.
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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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The devil is an angel too.
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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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