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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
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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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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 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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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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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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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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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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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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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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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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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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