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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
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
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We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
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A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
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The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.
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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.
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The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
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In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which he may chart his course, only one limit: the past.
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An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
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Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.
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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
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Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
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Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.
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Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.
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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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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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tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.
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The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.
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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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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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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 essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
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