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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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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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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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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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There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
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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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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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There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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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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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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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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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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