Miguel de Unamuno - Tragic Sense of Life (1912)

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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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Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

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Science exists only in personal consciousness and thanks to it; astronomy, mathematics, have no other reality than that which they possess as knowledge in the minds of those who study and cultivate them.

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

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The will, the will not ever to die, the refusal to resign oneself to death, ceaselessly builds the house of life while the keen blasts and icy winds of reason unceasingly batter at the structure and beat it down.

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