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Jose Ortega Y Gasset Inspirational Quotes (91)

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I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.
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To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.
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The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.
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We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
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The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.
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Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
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The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
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To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity...
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For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
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tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.
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Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.
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Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.
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The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
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Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
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The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
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The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
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Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.
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The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.
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To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act of permanent rebellion and subversion against social environs.
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Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.
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Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.
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That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such contradiction, for there is no such triumph. Russia is Marxist more or less as the Germans of the Holy Roman Empire were Romans.
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Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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