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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
Essayist
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Madrid
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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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All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.
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Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that falling in love...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.
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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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The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.
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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
The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side. In truth, tragedy and comedy are the twin masks of history - its mass appeal.
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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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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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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 hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.
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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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There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
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An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
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Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.
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The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.
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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
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For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.
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