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Miguel de Unamuno
Spain
29 Sep 1864 // 31 Dec 1936
Essayist / Philosopher / Writer
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On Future:
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past
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On Philosophy:
Philosophy fulfils the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life
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On Envy:
Envy is a thousand times worse than hunger, since it is hunger of the spirit
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On Common Sense:
There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense
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On God:
I believe in God because I create God
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On Emotion:
Against emotional values arguments have no power, because arguments are only arguments, in other words, not even truths
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On Time:
And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity
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On Intellectual:
The intellectual world is divided into two classes - dilettantes, on the one hand, and pedants, on the other
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On Faith:
Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs
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On Science:
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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