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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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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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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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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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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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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.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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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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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.
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