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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
Mathematician
Opinion Journalist
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Poet
Politician
Sociologist
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University Teacher
Madrid
Spain
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Life is fired at us point blank.
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A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
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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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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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Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
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The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
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