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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
Mathematician
Opinion Journalist
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Poet
Politician
Sociologist
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Madrid
Spain
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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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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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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Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.
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Every intellectual effort sets us apart from the commonplace, and leads us by hidden and difficult paths to secluded spots where we find ourselves amid unaccustomed thoughts.
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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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There is no doubt even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.
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