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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
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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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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It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.
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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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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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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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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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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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