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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 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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All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.
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This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.
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The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.
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Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.
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Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.
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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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Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.
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