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Famous Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
“Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.”
“Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.”
“True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.”
“Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.”
“The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.”
“Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.”
“To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.”
“To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.”
“From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.”
“Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.”
“Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling”
“It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.”
“Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.”
“The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.”
“What is vanity but the longing to survive?”
“We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.”
“The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.”
“The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.”
“The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.”
“Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.”
“An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.”
“Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.”