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Man in a word has no nature what he has... is history.
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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Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.
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Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.
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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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Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.
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The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
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To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity...
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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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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
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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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The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
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The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.
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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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Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
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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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I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.
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To wonder is to begin to understand.
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There is no doubt even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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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Love is exclusivity, selection.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
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