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The will to be oneself is heroism
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
Literary Critic
Mathematician
Opinion Journalist
Pedagogue
Philosopher
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Madrid
Spain
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Heroism
Oneself
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Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.
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Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.
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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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Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.
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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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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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Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which can be called public or popular opinion.
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All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.
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The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.
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The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.
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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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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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Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.
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There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
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Man in a word has no nature what he has... is history.
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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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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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What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
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Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
