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The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.
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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Pedagogue
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Madrid
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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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I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
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The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.
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Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
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What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
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The will to be oneself is heroism
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Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.
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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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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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Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.
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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 cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
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Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.
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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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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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Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.
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Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.
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