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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.
Miguel de Unamuno
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
Miguel de Unamuno -
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.
Miguel de Unamuno
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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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Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth
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None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
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It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.
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Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
Miguel de Unamuno
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To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
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What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
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Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together, when through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath the common yoke of a common grief. It is then that they know one another and feel one another and feel with one another in their common anguish, and so they pity one another and love one another.
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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
Miguel de Unamuno