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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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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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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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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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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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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 chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
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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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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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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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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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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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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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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 the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.
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