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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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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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My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.
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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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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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A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
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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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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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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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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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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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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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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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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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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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