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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.

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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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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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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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The devil is an angel too.
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Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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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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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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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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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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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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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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