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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.
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There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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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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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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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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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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