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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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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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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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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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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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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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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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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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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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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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