Miguel de Unamuno Short Quotes

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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

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We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

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Life is doubt,
And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

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To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

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It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

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There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.

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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

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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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What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

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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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

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Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

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Reason perhaps teaches certain bourgeois virtues, but it does not make either heroes or saints.

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I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to."

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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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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

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Wisdom is to science what death is to life, or, if you prefer it, wisdom is to death what science is to life.

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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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The intellectual world is divided into two classes — dilettantes, on the one hand, and pedants, on the other.

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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.

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Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

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Let us go on committing suicide by working among our people, and let them dream life just as the lake dreams the sky.

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Reason, that which we call reason, reflex and reflective knowledge, the distinguishing mark of man, is a social product.

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Warmth, warmth, more warmth! for we are dying of cold and not of darkness. It is not the night that kills, but the frost.

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