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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
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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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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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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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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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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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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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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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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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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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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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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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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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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The devil is an angel too.
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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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