Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

• That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

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

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• Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

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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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• Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

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• Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

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

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

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

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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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• If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

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

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• Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

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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.

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• Consciousness is a disease.

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• Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

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• Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

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• A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

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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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