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Jose Ortega y Gasset
Age: 72 †
Born: 1883
Born: May 9
Died: 1955
Died: October 18
Essayist
Literary Critic
Mathematician
Opinion Journalist
Pedagogue
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Poet
Politician
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University Teacher
Madrid
Spain
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Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.
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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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Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
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Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.
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Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.
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Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.
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To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity...
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There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
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All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.
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The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.
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Every intellectual effort sets us apart from the commonplace, and leads us by hidden and difficult paths to secluded spots where we find ourselves amid unaccustomed thoughts.
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Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of Nature.
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It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold, or rather, would flatter him. Immoralism has become a commonplace, and anybody and everybody boasts of practising it.
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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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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
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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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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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Man in a word has no nature what he has... is history.
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Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.
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