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

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Little Things, Persons, Small Things

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• The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Reality, Thinking, World

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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.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hunting, Animal, Facts

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

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• Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Today, Violence, Periods

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

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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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• To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

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  Hands, Heavy, Firm

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

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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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• The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Two, Portraits, Different

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• To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act of permanent rebellion and subversion against social environs.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Writing, Erosion, Language

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

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  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.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Success, Time, Believe

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

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• The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.

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  Struggle, Fighting, Past

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

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• Life is a series of collisions with the future.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspirational, Life, Short Life

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• History is the science of people.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  People, History

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• Law is born from despair of human nature.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Law, Despair, Human Nature

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• This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform of "youth" as youth. ... In comic fashion people call themselves "young," because they have heard that youth has more rights than obligations, since it can put off the fulfilment of these latter to the Greek Kalends of maturity. ...[T]he astounding thing at present is that these take it as an effective right precisely in order to claim for themselves all those other rights which only belong to the man who has already done something.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Fashion, Fighting, Maturity

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1929.

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• In our rather stupid time, hunting is belittled and misunderstood, many refusing to see it for the vital vacation from the human condition that it is, or to acknowledge that the hunter does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, he kills in order to have hunted.

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  Stupid, Vacation, Hunting

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• There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Rejection, Doubt, Shadow

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• There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall.

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  Fall, Reality, Speed

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• Strictly speaking, the mass, as a psychological fact, can be defined without waiting for individuals to appear in mass formation. In the presence of one individual we can decide whether he is "mass" or not. The mass is all that which sets no value on itself good or ill based on specific grounds, but which feels itself "just like everybody," and nevertheless is not concerned about it; is, in fact, quite happy to feel itself as one with everybody else.

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  Waiting, Facts, Psychological

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter I: "The Coming Of The Masses", 1929.

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• Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world

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  Believe, Men, Reality

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

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• Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Frustration, Men, Aggravation

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• Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

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  Life Is, Fame, Boundaries

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• There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Two, World, May

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

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Struggle, Effort, Life Is

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

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