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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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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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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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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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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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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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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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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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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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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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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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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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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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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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