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Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.
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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Jose Ortega y Gasset
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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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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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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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tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.
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A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
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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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I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
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There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
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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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Man in a word has no nature what he has... is history.
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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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All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.
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Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.
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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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Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.
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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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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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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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