Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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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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My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.
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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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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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.
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Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.
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Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")
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Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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Man dies of cold, not of darkness.