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tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.
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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Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.
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In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything to which to give themselves.
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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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Natural man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.
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Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.
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The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other than the sharp peaks of the mountain, the roaming cloud, the stern oak, the trembling juniper, and the passing animal.
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Man in a word has no nature what he has... is history.
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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.
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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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Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.
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There is no doubt even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.
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The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.
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All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.
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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 good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
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Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
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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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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
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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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Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
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