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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
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Pedagogue
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Madrid
Spain
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Heroism
Oneself
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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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All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.
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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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Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.
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The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.
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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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There is no doubt even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.
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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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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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The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other than the sharp peaks of the mountain, the roaming cloud, the stern oak, the trembling juniper, and the passing animal.
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We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
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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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The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.
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Love is exclusivity, selection.
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Law is born from despair of human nature.
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