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![[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly mediocre, and even less than mediocre. That is to say, modern science, the root and symbol of our actual civilization, finds a place for the intellectually commonplace man and allows him to work therein with success Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/801/800990/800990.webp "[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly mediocre, and even less than mediocre. That is to say, modern science, the root and symbol of our actual civilization, finds a place for the intellectually commonplace man and allows him to work therein with success Picture Quote #1")
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Thinking is the endeavor to capture reality by means of ideas (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
To-day violence is the rhetoric of the period (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
History is the science of people (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
Life is a series of collisions with the future (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
The real magic wand is the child’s own mind (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly mediocre, and even less than mediocre. That is to say, modern science, the root and symbol of our actual civilization, finds a place for the intellectually commonplace man and allows him to work therein with success (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, bu (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
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. (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
Marxian Socialism and Bolshevism are two historical phenomena which have hardly a single common denominator. (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals. (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
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 Quotes)
We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it. (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation. (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
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 (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafe (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
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 (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
Minorities are individual or groups of individuals especially qualified. The masses are the collection of people not specially qualified (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafes full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
I do not deny that there may be other well founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)