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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.
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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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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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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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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The devil is an angel too.
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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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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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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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It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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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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Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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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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