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Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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The sky of fame is not very large, and the more who enter it, the less each one of them touches.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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Love shows compassion, and it shows more the more it loves.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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He who wants everything that happens, makes everything happen that he wants. Human omnipotence through resignation! This resignation can only be reached by grace.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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We ask for miracles, as if the most obvious miracle is that we ask for them.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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Life is not a dream. The most vigorous spiritual touch is the need for persistence in one form or another. The longing to extend in time and space.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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The less thought, the more tyrannical and absorbing thought.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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The less one reads, the more harm what is read does.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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Madness, true madness, is sorely needed, to see if it cures us of this plague of common sense that has each of us drowning in our own.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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We should be more suspicious of those who seek reasons for benefiting us than of those who benefit us without seeking reasons.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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It is weak because it has not doubted enough and has wanted to reach conclusions.