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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
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
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Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.
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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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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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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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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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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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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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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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