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Love is exclusivity, selection.
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
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Pedagogue
Philosopher
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Madrid
Spain
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Exclusivity
Selection
Love
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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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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
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Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.
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To wonder is to begin to understand.
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To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act of permanent rebellion and subversion against social environs.
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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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Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
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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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Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.
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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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I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
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There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
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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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All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.
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For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
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Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.
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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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To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity...
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tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.
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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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