"Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible ." ― Miguel de Unamuno
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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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"If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing."
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"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death."
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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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"Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory."
― Miguel de Unamuno
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"The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule."
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"Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling."
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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." ― Miguel de Unamuno |
"A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about." ― Miguel de Unamuno |
"Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope."
― Miguel de Unamuno
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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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"None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much."
― Miguel de Unamuno
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"The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read." ― Miguel de Unamuno |
"Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude."
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"Men shout to avoid listening to one another." ― Miguel de Unamuno |
"Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you."
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"An idea does not pass from one language to another without change."
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"It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand."
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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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