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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
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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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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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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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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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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Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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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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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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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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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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