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

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life, People, Side Dishes

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In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything to which to give themselves.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Motivation, Years, Giving

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The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of the personal efforts of highly endowed individuals which the creation of this new world presupposed. Still less will he admit the notion that all these facilities still require the support of certain difficult human virtues, the least failure of which would cause the rapid disappearance of the whole magnificent edifice.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Believe, Men, Thinking

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

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The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Civilization, Failing, Cynicism

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.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life, Unemployment, Unemployed

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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.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Discovery, Dragons, Discipline

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Love is exclusivity, selection.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Love Is, Exclusivity, Selection

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