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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
Literary Critic
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Pedagogue
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Madrid
Spain
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Thought
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Acquisition
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To wonder is to begin to understand.
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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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In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which he may chart his course, only one limit: the past.
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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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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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That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such contradiction, for there is no such triumph. Russia is Marxist more or less as the Germans of the Holy Roman Empire were Romans.
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This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.
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Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.
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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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Man in a word has no nature what he has... is history.
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Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.
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Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.
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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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The will to be oneself is heroism
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Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
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There is no doubt even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.
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The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.
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Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
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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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To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.
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