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Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
Age: 72 †
Born: 1883
Born: May 9
Died: 1955
Died: October 18
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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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The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves lost. And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. Those who accept it have already begun to find themselves, to be on firm ground.
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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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Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.
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The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
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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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Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.
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For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
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All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.
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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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Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.
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Every intellectual effort sets us apart from the commonplace, and leads us by hidden and difficult paths to secluded spots where we find ourselves amid unaccustomed thoughts.
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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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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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In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything to which to give themselves.
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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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Law is born from despair of human nature.
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Man in a word has no nature what he has... is history.
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To wonder is to begin to understand.
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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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