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“True patriotism is a charity so wide that it covers a nation.”

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“Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven and earth, a Consciousness or Conscience of the Universe, but that even so it would not be sufficient reason to assume that the soul of every man was immortal in the traditional and concrete sense. And he replied, "Then what good is God?”

Source: The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations

“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.”

Ideas Optimism Optimistic Pessimism Pessimistic Physiological

Author:Miguel de Unamuno

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

Men Facts Loaded Phantoms

Author:Miguel de Unamuno

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

School Sincere Pretense

Author:Miguel de Unamuno

“Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.”

Thinking Men Humans Made Life Is Lying Social Knowing Products Speech Human Life Physiological

Book:Mist: A Tragicomic Novel

Source: Mist: A Tragicomic Novel

“Isolation is the worst possible counselor.”

Worst Isolation Counselor Isolationism

Author:Miguel de Unamuno

“Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.”

May Matter Lawyer Carrie Peasants

Author:Miguel de Unamuno

“There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.”

People World Ideas Would Be Names Consequence Neighbor Tyranny Labels Tolerate Hateful Loathe Detest

Book:Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 3: Our Lord Don Quixote

Source: Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 3: Our Lord Don Quixote

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