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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?
— Miguel de Unamuno Tragic Sense of Life
Tags: science, progress, man

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Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.
— Miguel de Unamuno
Tags: passion, idea, god, believe
Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
— Miguel de Unamuno
Tags: will, believe, people, you
We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
— Miguel de Unamuno
Tags: understand, feel, universe, god
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
— Miguel de Unamuno
Tags: ignorant, doubt, true, science
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
— Miguel de Unamuno
Tags: talking, who, fool, good
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