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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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  Men, Mediocre, Nations

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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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• I am I plus my circumstances.

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  Plus, Circumstances

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• The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.

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  Heart, Men, Doe

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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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  Inspirational, Adversity, Order

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• There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.

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  Life, People, Side Dishes

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• Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

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  Civilization, Lasts, Resorts

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• The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

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  Power, Men, Metaphor

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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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• [T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own. Suppose that in the public life of a country some difficulty, conflict, or problem presents itself, the mass-man will tend to demand that the State intervene immediately and undertake a solution directly with its immense and unassailable resources. This is the gravest danger that to-day threatens civilisation: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State.

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  Country, Believe, Men

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

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• An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

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  Life, Unemployment, Unemployed

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

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  Men, Adaptability, Worst

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• For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

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  Little Things, Persons, Small Things

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• Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

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  Poetry, Metaphor, Algebra

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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.

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  Men, Limits, Pilgrimage

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

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• I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.

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  Wish, Compulsion

  "History as a System". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, "Man has no nature", 1962.

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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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  Success, Time, Believe

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

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• Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

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  Art, Mean, Serious Person

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

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  Absence, Made, Barbarism

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

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

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  Heart, Emotional, Type

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• Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

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  Love, Confusion, Vitality

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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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• All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.

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  Struggle, Effort, Life Is

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

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• It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold, or rather, would flatter him. Immoralism has become a commonplace, and anybody and everybody boasts of practising it.

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  Men, Would Be, Pieces

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter XV: "We Arrive At The Real Question", 1929.

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