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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
Miguel Unamuno
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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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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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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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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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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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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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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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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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Is there anything more terrible than a call? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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