"We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past."
― Miguel de Unamuno
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"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion."
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"True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant."
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"The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness."
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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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"If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory."
― Miguel de Unamuno
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"Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well."
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"We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best."
― Miguel de Unamuno
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"What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it."
― Miguel de Unamuno
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"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death."
― Miguel de Unamuno
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"That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence."
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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." ― Miguel de Unamuno |
"To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist." ― Miguel de Unamuno |
"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."
― Miguel de Unamuno
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"Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life."
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"The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity."
― Miguel de Unamuno
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“Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.”
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"To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be."
― Miguel de Unamuno
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"The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness."
― Miguel de Unamuno
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"Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you."
― Miguel de Unamuno
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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." ― Miguel de Unamuno |
"It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love"
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"Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts." ― Miguel de Unamuno |
"Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning."
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"Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil."
― Miguel de Unamuno |
"If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man."
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"Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life."
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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.”
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"To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most."
― Miguel de Unamuno
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