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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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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, 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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To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act of permanent rebellion and subversion against social environs.
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Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
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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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Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which can be called public or popular opinion.
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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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Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.
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There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
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Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.
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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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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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The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.
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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 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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There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
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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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I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.
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Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
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