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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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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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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 less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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