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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
Essayist
Literary Critic
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Philosopher
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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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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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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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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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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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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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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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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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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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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