Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.
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He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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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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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.
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Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
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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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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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Men shout to avoid listening to one another.
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The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.
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We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.
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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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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.
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Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
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Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.
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Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.