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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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Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.
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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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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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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 truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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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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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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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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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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The devil is an angel too.
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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