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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
Essayist
Literary Critic
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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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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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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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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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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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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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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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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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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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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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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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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