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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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Spain
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The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.
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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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Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of Nature.
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