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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
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The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.
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What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other.
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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 form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the self-satisfied man.
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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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I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.
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Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
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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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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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Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.
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There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
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Man in a word has no nature what he has... is history.
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We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.
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Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which can be called public or popular opinion.
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