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Miguel de Unamuno

1864-1936. Spanish writer and philosopher.

1. "We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past."

categories: Time and Passing

2. "We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe."

source: "The Tragic Sense of Life"

categories: God and Religion -:- Various

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

categories: Science and Technology -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

4. "To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist."

categories: God and Religion

5. "These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century."

categories: Science and Technology

6. "There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense."

categories: Intellect, Judgement

7. "The intellectual world is divided into two classes - dilettantes, on the one hand, and pedants, on the other."

categories: Intellect, Judgement

8. "Science is a cemetery of dead ideas."

source: "The Tragic Sense of Life"

categories: Science and Technology

9. "Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life."

categories: Science and Technology

10. "Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs. "

categories: God and Religion

11. "It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love."

categories: Joy and Sadness -:- Love

12. "He knows everything, absolutely everything. Imagine what an idiot he must be."

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

13. "Faith which does not doubt is dead faith."

categories: God and Religion

14. "Envy is a thousand times worse than hunger, since it is hunger of the spirit."

categories: Envy

15. "And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity."

categories: Art and Culture


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