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• Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being, and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Limits, Pilgrimage

  "History as a System". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1962.

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• The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Heart, Emotional, Type

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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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  Life, Mean, Emptiness

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• We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.

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  Sarcastic, Falling In Love, Valentine

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• 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

  Men, Europe, Giving

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Acquisition, Precarious

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• This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Children, Men, Two

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Poetry, Metaphor, Algebra

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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.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspiring, Men, Inspire

  "The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset. Chapter "Taboo and Metaphor", 1925.

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• Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Absence, Made, Barbarism

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Rights, Noble Man

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Adaptability, Worst

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• And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life, Simple, Accepting

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter XIV: "Who Rules The World?", 1929.

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• We cannot put off living until we are ready.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspirational Life, Ready

  "'Misión de la Universidad' ('Mission of the University')". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, translated by Howard Lee Nostrand, p. 73, 1946.

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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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  Effort, Intellectual, Path

  "What is Philosophy?". Book by José Ortega y Gasset, p. 15, 1964.

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• Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

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  Mean, Reality, Thinking

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• The direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of this or that civilisation but from what we can judge today of any civilisation. The type of man dominant today is a primitive one, a Naturmensch rising up in the midst of a civilised world.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Taken, Men, Rising Up

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter IX: "The Primitive and the Technical", 1929.

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• Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.

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  Ruins, Life Is, Debris

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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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  Life, Success, Men

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• I am I plus my circumstances.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Plus, Circumstances

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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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  Power, Civilization, Effort

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• A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is in a relationship of superiority or inferiority with regard to every other. Strict equality is exceedingly improbable and anomalous.

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  Hunting, Animal, Facts

  Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.106, Wilderness Adventures Press

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• The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.

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  Views, Choices, Culture

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• Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Determination, Generosity, Enemy

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that is to say, of spontaneous historical action, which in the long run sustains, nourishes, and impels human destinies.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Running, Destiny, Civilization

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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