"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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Niebla [Mist] (1914)
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Miguel de Unamuno
1864 – 1936
spanischer Philosoph und Schriftsteller
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