Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

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.

Miguel de Unamuno

• Sake
• Affirmation
• Negation
• Abstention

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• To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.

  

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• I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.

  

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• We must continue to foster relevant and constructive dialogue among Israeli and Palestinian communities.

  

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• My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was killed in the line of duty. My father, who was 16, was the oldest son, so he had to quit school and go to work to support his mother.

  

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• Whatever I hear in my head is what I play.

  

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• Cain has built a city. For God's Eden he substitutes his own, for the goal given to his life by God, he substitutes a goal chosen by himself.

  

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• Man's power is first of all the result of hardening his heart against God: man affirms that he is strong, conquers the world, and builds cities.

  

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• We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

  

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• All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.

  

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• Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth.

  

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• The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on these matters, but it has also influenced the thinking of legislators all over the world.

  

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• Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

  

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  • Work
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• To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

  

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  • Truth
  • True
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• What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you, or even after a capacious dinner — the nice, fresh, green, and crisp salad, full of life and health, which seems to invigorate the, palate and dispose the masticating powers to a much longer duration.

  

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  • Dinner
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• My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.

  

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• Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

  

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• In the wilderness man learns to have faith in his Creator.

  

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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.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Sake
  • Affirmation
  • Negation