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Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

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  1. Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
  2. At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right
  3. Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
  4. The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
  5. We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
  6. If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
  7. Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly "” but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.
  8. It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
  9. My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.
  10. That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

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