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The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
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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Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
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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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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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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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Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
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There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
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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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Love is exclusivity, selection.
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The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.
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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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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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One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.
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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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The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.
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Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
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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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The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
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The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.
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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 heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.
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