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All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.
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
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Madrid
Spain
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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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Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that falling in love...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.
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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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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
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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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Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
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The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the self-satisfied man.
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The will to be oneself is heroism
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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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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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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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There is no doubt even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.
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To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity...
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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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Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.
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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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If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
