Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
Science says: "We must live," and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: "We must die," and seeks how to make us die well.
Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
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.
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
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