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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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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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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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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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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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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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The devil is an angel too.
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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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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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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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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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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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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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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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