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Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
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
Mathematician
Opinion Journalist
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Poet
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Madrid
Spain
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.
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Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.
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Love is exclusivity, selection.
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If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
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What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
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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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An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
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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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The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
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I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
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To wonder is to begin to understand.
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Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one
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Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.
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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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The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.
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Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.
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The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves lost. And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. Those who accept it have already begun to find themselves, to be on firm ground.
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To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.
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The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.
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