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An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
Age: 72 †
Born: 1883
Born: May 9
Died: 1955
Died: October 18
Essayist
Literary Critic
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Opinion Journalist
Pedagogue
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Madrid
Spain
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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When you are fed up with the troublesome present, you take your gun, whistle for your dog, go out to the mountain, and, without further ado, give yourself the pleasure during a few hours or a few days of being Paleolithic.
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Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.
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The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.
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Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
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The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
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Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.
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To wonder is to begin to understand.
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