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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
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Madrid
Spain
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Heroism
Oneself
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Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that falling in love...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.
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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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Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.
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The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.
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There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
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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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Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
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The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
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Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.
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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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An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
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There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
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There is no doubt even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.
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