Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

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

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• It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.

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• Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

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

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• Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I’ve done it from my youth. To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

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  Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

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• If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.

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

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• A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

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• Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

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• It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

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• Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

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• Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

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• A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

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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.

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• Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

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

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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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Miguel de Unamuno (41)

Birth:	29th September, 1864
Death:	31st December, 1936
Nationality:	Spanish
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Philosopher, Poet, Playwriter

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