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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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I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a matter of honor today than ever before to be open to all minds ... This is different from the individual sciences which increasingly [interpose] between the treasure of their discoveries and the curiosity of the profane the tremendous dragon of their closed terminology.

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Discovery, Dragons, Discipline

"What is Philosophy?". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1964.

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To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity...

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Mean, Identity, Lacking

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

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Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Government, Order, Pressure

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Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Men, Novelists, Originals

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

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The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Truth, Science, Men

1930 The Revolt of theMasses.

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If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Wisdom, Destiny, Men

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Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Falling In Love, Love Is, Mind

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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.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Inspirational, Adversity, Order

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The real magic wand is the child's own mind.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Children, Real, Magic

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Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Power, Civilization, Effort

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Truth, Lying, Ideas

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

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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.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Religious, Men, Hunting

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

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Life is fired at us point blank.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life, Life Is, Blank

Jose Ortega y Gasset (2014). “Mission of the University”, p.51, Routledge

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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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Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

One Thing

Jose Ortega y Gasset (2014). “Mission of the University”, p.35, Routledge

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

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Art, Mean, Serious Person

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

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Heart, Men, Doe

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What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Men, Mediocre, Nations

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Love is exclusivity, selection.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Love Is, Exclusivity, Selection

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Man is a fugitive from nature.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Men, Hunting, Fugitive

Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.129, Wilderness Adventures Press

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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.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Russia, Triumph, Would Be

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

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By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Thinking, Exaggeration Is, Force

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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.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Love, Confusion, Vitality

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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.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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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Born: May 9, 1883
Died: October 18, 1955
Occupation: Philosopher
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