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The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
Age: 72 †
Born: 1883
Born: May 9
Died: 1955
Died: October 18
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Madrid
Spain
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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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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The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the self-satisfied man.
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To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity...
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Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.
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The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
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