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Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.
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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Opinion Journalist
Pedagogue
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Madrid
Spain
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.
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Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.
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The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves lost. And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. Those who accept it have already begun to find themselves, to be on firm ground.
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All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.
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tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.
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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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Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.
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An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
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Law is born from despair of human nature.
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I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.
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Man in a word has no nature what he has... is history.
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A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
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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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The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.
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Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which can be called public or popular opinion.
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The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.
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For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
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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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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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