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• It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.

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  Hands, Giving, Carrie

  Miguel de Unamuno (1925). “Essays and Soliloquies”

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• We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

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  Lying, Believe, Men

  Miguel de Unamuno (1928). “Mist Niebla: A Tragicomic Novel”

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

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  May, Matter, Lawyer

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• Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  Miguel de Unamuno (2015). “Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 3: Our Lord Don Quixote”, p.220, Princeton University Press

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• I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.

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  Believe, Destiny, Drawing

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• 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.

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  Cat, Animal, Men

  "The Tragic Sense of Life" by Miguel de Unamuno, as translated by J. E. Crawford Flitch, 1921.

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• The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

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  Doubt, Triumph, Reason

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.

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  Lying, Silence, Sometimes

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• The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

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  Giving, World, Way

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.152, Courier Corporation

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• My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.

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  Knowing, Religion, Atheism

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• Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.

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  Cutting, Seeds

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

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  Men, Phantoms, Facts

  Collected in Essays and Soliloquies (translated by J E Crawford Flitch, 1925).

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• 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.

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  Names, Ideas, People

  Miguel de Unamuno (2015). “Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 3: Our Lord Don Quixote”, p.16, Princeton University Press

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• Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.

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  Depressing, Evil, Consciousness

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.291, Courier Corporation

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• May God deny you peace but give you glory!

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  Giving, May, Glory

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense Of Life”, p.436, tredition

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• If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.

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  Fighting, Destiny, Victory

  Miguel De Unamuno (2007). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.268, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

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  Fate, Men, Unjust

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.263, Courier Corporation

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

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  Memories, Intelligent, Rely Upon

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• Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.

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  Ideas, People, Looks

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• The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

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  People, Height, Faces

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.342, Princeton University Press

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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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  Death, Mean, Science

  Essays and Soliloquies 'Arbitrary Reflections'

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• Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.

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  Faults, Bother

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• None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.

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  Believe, Littles, Too Much

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.86, Princeton University Press

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

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  God, Religious, Believe

  "The Tragic Sense of Life" by Miguel de Unamuno, as translated by J. E. Crawford Flitch, 1921.

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

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  Philosophy, Science, Technology

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