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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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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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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No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself.
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I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not found the direction yet.
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Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.
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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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I was thinking about how snakes shed their skin every year, and how awesome it would be if people did that too. In lots of ways, that’s what I was trying to do.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
