"These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and……" — Miguel de Unamuno
"These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century."
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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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The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close…
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Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger…
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