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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
Spain
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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 an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
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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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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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We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
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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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There is no doubt even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.
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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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The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.
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Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.
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Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.
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For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
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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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Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.
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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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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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Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.
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It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold, or rather, would flatter him. Immoralism has become a commonplace, and anybody and everybody boasts of practising it.
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Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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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