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To wonder is to begin to understand.
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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Jose Ortega y Gasset
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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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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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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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I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
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For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
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The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.
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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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To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.
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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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Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.
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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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This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.
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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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Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.
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Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.
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A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
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Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
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There is no doubt even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.
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