"Yes, yes, I see it all! — an……" — Miguel de Unamuno
"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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Miguel de Unamuno
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89 Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno
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Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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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 individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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