"Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since……" — Miguel de Unamuno
"Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent."
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Miguel de Unamuno
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89 Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno has 89 quotes on this site.
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Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
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If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and…
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they…
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The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a…
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Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable…
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Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as…
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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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My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not…
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More Assent Quotes
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one of 57 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
— William Hazlitt
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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
— Pindar
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I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They…
— Thomas Jefferson
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As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this…
— Thomas Kuhn
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And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person,…
— David Hume
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The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference.
— Unknown Author
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Oh, hear Him within you speaking this infinite love,moving like some divine and audible leaven,lifting the sky of the soul…
— Jessica Powers
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It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State,…
— James Madison
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So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely…
— Charles Hodge
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Every event has a cause-that is ... for every event e1 there exists an event e2 (or a class of…
— Ermanno Bencivenga
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Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
— William Gurnall
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