Reason, that which we call reason, reflex and reflective knowledge, the distinguishing mark of man, is a social product.
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Aphorisms by Miguel De Unamuno
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
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I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a because, but rather an in order to.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
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.
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We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.
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Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself: that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks, he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech: this thing that they call a social product was made for lying.
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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 in the God idea, not God himself.
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Posted by: Elisabetta
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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Posted by: Elisabetta
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
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Posted by: Elisabetta
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Death)
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
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