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The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
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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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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Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.
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Law is born from despair of human nature.
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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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I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
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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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Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.
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For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
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There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
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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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Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.
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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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Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being 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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There is no doubt even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.
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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 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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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
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A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
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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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