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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Determination, Generosity, Enemy

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

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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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• 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.

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  Religious, Men, Hunting

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

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

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  Children, Real, Magic

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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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• 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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• Life is fired at us point blank.

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  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.

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  Running, Destiny, Civilization

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

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• Love is exclusivity, selection.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Love Is, Exclusivity, Selection

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

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  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.

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  Art, Mean, Serious Person

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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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• 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.

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  Children, Men, Two

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

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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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• The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.

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  Dream, World, Possibility

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

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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.

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  Thinking, Exaggeration Is, Force

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• Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.

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  Hate, Irritation, Feelings

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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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• Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.

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  Powerful, Thinking, Rights

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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 poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Poet, Ends

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