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At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right

Miguel de Unamuno
Lying, Winning, Order
Miguel de Unamuno, “At Times To Be Silent Is To Lie”

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

Miguel de Unamuno
Lying, Believe, Men
Miguel de Unamuno (1928). “Mist Niebla: A Tragicomic Novel”

Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.

Miguel de Unamuno
Lying, Silence, Sometimes

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.

Miguel de Unamuno
Lying, Men, Thinking
Miguel de Unamuno, Warner Fite (1928). “Mist: A Tragicomic Novel”, p.172, University of Illinois Press

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