Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
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Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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I wash my hair once or twice a week to keep the natural oils.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
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Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
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I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.
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Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
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We shall therefore assume the complete physical equivalence of a gravitational field and a corresponding acceleration of the reference system.
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I'm just a natural flirt, but I don't see it in a sexual way. A lot of the time I'm like an overexcited puppy.
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Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
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Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.
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Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.
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I'm telling you, you did what you believed you had to do through all of this. Not what was easiest or best for you. You did what you did, and you're owning it. And I don't know ten men who would be brave enough to do that.
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Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall ferment and transpires again grosses exhalations. And, according to the condition of all other things living, ought to have its time of beginning, youth, old age and perishing.
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The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.
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As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
