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Law is born from despair of human nature.
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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Madrid
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
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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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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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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 hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.
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Life is fired at us point blank.
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The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the self-satisfied man.
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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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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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What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other.
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Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
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Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.
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Love is exclusivity, selection.
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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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Natural man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.
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