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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
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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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What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
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There is no doubt even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.
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Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of Nature.
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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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Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.
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Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.
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A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
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Man in a word has no nature what he has... is history.
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Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
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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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The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.
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Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
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Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which can be called public or popular opinion.
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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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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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The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
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To wonder is to begin to understand.
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Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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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