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There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
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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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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We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
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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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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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When you are fed up with the troublesome present, you take your gun, whistle for your dog, go out to the mountain, and, without further ado, give yourself the pleasure during a few hours or a few days of being Paleolithic.
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