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Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes

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A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation  (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new  (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be  (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) 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 Quotes) We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it  (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist  (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly  (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will  (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself  (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will  (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) 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 Quotes) The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have  (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration  (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him  (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) 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 Quotes) There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation  (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) 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 Quotes) To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat  (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions  (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself  (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving  (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) 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 Quotes) The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the self-satisfied man  (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) That science is incapable of solving in its own way those fundamental questions is no sufficient reason for slighting them  (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) The assurance that we have no means of answering questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply should we feel, down to the roots of our being, their pressure and their sting. Whose hunger has ever been with the knowledge that he could not eat?  (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power  (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) Man's being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half transcending it  (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) In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which he may chart his course, only one limit: the past  (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which... Can be called public or popular opinion  (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)
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