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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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Politician
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University Teacher
Madrid
Spain
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Heroism
Oneself
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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 more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
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We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
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All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.
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If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
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The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.
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To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity...
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All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.
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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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The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.
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When you are fed up with the troublesome present, you take your gun, whistle for your dog, go out to the mountain, and, without further ado, give yourself the pleasure during a few hours or a few days of being Paleolithic.
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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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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.
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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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Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.
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There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
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Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
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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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In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which he may chart his course, only one limit: the past.
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