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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.

Miguel de Unamuno

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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
Essayist
Literary Critic
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Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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