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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
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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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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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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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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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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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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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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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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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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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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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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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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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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