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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
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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Madrid
Spain
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side. In truth, tragedy and comedy are the twin masks of history - its mass appeal.
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Natural man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.
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Man in a word has no nature what he has... is history.
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Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.
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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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