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Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.
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
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
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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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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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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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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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The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.
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Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
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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 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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To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.
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The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
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All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.
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The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.
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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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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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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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Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.
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Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.
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In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything to which to give themselves.
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Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.
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