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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
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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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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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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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The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
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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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Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.
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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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