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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
Literary Critic
Mathematician
Opinion Journalist
Pedagogue
Philosopher
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Madrid
Spain
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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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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Man in a word has no nature what he has... is history.
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The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.
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Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.
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The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.
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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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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 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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An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
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The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.
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There is no doubt even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.
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All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.
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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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We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
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The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.
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To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.
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Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.
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Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.
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We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
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