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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
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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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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What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
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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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In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which he may chart his course, only one limit: the past.
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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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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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Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.
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Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.
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To wonder is to begin to understand.
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Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
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The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
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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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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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A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
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