Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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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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Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
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Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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Men shout to avoid listening to one another.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
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Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.
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It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
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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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Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
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At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right
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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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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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We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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Fear is the start of wisdom.
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If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.