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Life is doubt,And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Fear is the start of wisdom.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, e...

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Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, e...

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A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

Science says: "We must live " and seeks the means of prolonging increasing facilitating and amplif...

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There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is s...

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It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimis...

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Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

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

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

They will conquer but they will not convince.

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

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in ...

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At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not ...

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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 f...

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Tragic Sense of Life

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets ...

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Tragic Sense of Life

Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of scien...

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Tragic Sense of Life

A pedant who beheld Solon weeping for the death of a son said to him, ‘Why do you weep thus, if weep...

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Tragic Sense of Life

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Miguel de Unamuno

Novelist

Born: 1864-09-29

Died: 1936-12-31

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (29 September 1864 – 31 December 1936) was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher.More