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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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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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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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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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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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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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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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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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