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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
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
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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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The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.
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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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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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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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There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
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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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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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Life is fired at us point blank.
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There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
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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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Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
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Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.
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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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All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.
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Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.
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The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.
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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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What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
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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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