Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno
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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.
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.
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid-in which case all comment is superfluous-or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
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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