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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.
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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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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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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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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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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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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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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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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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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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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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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