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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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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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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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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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At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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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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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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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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Is there anything more terrible than a call? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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The devil is an angel too.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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