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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
Selection
Love
Exclusivity
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The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.
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Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.
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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.
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Life is fired at us point blank.
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The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.
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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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All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.
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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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To wonder is to begin to understand.
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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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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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The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.
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A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
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The will to be oneself is heroism
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I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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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