Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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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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My religion is searching for the truth in life and life in the truth, though knowing that I do not have to find it while I live; my religion is fighting incessantly and tirelessly with the unknown.
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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And usually the philosopher philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.
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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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Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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Consciousness is a disease.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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The devil is an angel too.
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The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
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That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
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The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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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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Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.
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The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.
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Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.
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Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.