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Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.
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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The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
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Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
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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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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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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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I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
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Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.
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Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.
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I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.
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The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.
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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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If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
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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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The will to be oneself is heroism
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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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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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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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All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.
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Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one
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To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity...
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