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• Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.

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  Soul, Criticism, Atheism

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.90, Princeton University Press

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• Was man made for science, or was science made for man?

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  Men, Made

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense Of Life”, p.59, tredition

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• While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

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  Truth, Believe, Men

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense Of Life”, p.72, tredition

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• My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.

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  Writing, Men, Sake

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• Isolation is the worst possible counselor.

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  Isolation, Worst, Counselor

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• He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.

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  Pain, Fall, Heart

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.307, Princeton University Press

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• It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.

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  Optimistic, Ideas, Optimism

  1913 The Tragic Sense of Life.

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• Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.

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  Chemistry, Chemist, Ought

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.328, Courier Corporation

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• If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.

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  Philosophy, Men, Pedants

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Fear is the start of wisdom.

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• The devil is an angel too.

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  Angel, Devil

  "Three Exemplary Novels and a Prologue". Book by Miguel de Unamuno, 1920.

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

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  Faith, Martyr, Martyred

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• Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven and earth, a Consciousness or Conscience of the Universe, but that even so it would not be sufficient reason to assume that the soul of every man was immortal in the traditional and concrete sense. And he replied, "Then what good is God?

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  Men, Talking, Heaven

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

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  Grief, Order, Amusement

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

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  Success, Believe, Believe In Me

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

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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.

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  Love, Birthday, Death

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• All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.

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  Knowledge, Science, Goal

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• The will, the will not ever to die, the refusal to resign oneself to death, ceaselessly builds the house of life while the keen blasts and icy winds of reason unceasingly batter at the structure and beat it down.

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  Wind, House, Icy

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.121, Princeton University Press

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• The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.

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  War, Live Life, Men

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• What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.

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  Faith, Wish, May

  "Tragic Sense of Life".

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• Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

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  God, Doe, Martyr

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

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• Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?

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  Art, Fall, Men

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense Of Life”, p.59, tredition

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• There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.

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  School, Sincere, Pretense

  "Three Exemplary Novels and a Prologue". Book by Miguel de Unamuno, 1920.

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• The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.

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  Pessimism, Said, Protest

  Miguel De Unamuno (2005). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.265, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

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  Love, Pity Love, Spirit

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