Quote #15

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

More from Miguel de Unamuno

  1. Pantheism is said... to be merely atheism in disguise.
  2. La verdadera ciencia ensena, por encima de todo, a dudar y a ser ignorante.
  3. Everything vital is, not only irrational, but anti-rational, and everything rational is anti-vital.
  4. True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
  5. Consciousness is a disease.
  6. To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
  7. Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which diffe…
  8. Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

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