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I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not only an absence of God, but good reasons for supposing that there is no God at all. From this perspective, from what Unamuno called the 'tragic sense of life', from this despair, faith comes to the rescue, not only as something nonrational but in a sense irrational. For Unamuno the great symbol of a person of faith was his Spanish hero Don Quixote. Faith is indeed quixotic. It is absurd. Let us admit it. Let us concede to everything! To a rational mind the world looks like a world without God. It looks like a world with no hope for another life. To think otherwise, to believe in spite of appearances, is surely a kind of madness. The atheist sees clearly that windmills are in fact only windmills, that Dulcinea is just a poor country bumpkin with a homely face and an unpleasant smell. The atheist is a Sarah, justifiably laughing in her old age at Abraham's belief that God will give them a son.What can be said in reply? How can a fideist admit that faith is a kind of madness, a dream fed by passionate desire, and yet maintain that one is not mad to make the leap?

Martin Gardner
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Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)

Miguel de Unamuno
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Miguel de Unamuno
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

Miguel de Unamuno
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That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

Miguel de Unamuno
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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.

Miguel de Unamuno
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Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Miguel de Unamuno
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Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Miguel de Unamuno
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A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

Miguel de Unamuno
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Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Miguel de Unamuno
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