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Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes

One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality Picture Quote #1

The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary Picture Quote #1

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Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance Picture Quote #1

I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me Picture Quote #1

The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence Picture Quote #1

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack Picture Quote #1

We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies Picture Quote #1

The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones Picture Quote #1

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one Picture Quote #1

These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce Picture Quote #1

When you are fed up with the troublesome present, take your gun, whistle for your dog, and go out to the mountain Picture Quote #1

In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart. Love is an impulse which springs from the most profound depths of our beings, and upon reaching the visible surface of life carries with it an alluvium of shells and seaweed from the inner abyss. A skilled naturalist, by filing these materials, can reconstruct the oceanic depths from which they have been uprooted Picture Quote #1

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Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in it a little more of elegance and intensity; then, multiplying all these minute pressures toward the perfecting and deepening of each life by all the others, calculate for yourselves the gigantic enrichment, the fabulous ennobling which this process would create for human society Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other than the sharp peaks of the mountain, the roaming cloud, the stern oak, the trembling juniper, and the passing animal Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

We have not reached ethical perfection in hunting. One never achieves perfection in anything, and perhaps it exists precisely so that one can never achieve it. Its purpose is to orient our conduct and to allow us to measure the progress accomplished. In this sense, the advancement achieved in the ethics of hunting is undeniable Picture Quote #1

Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until the present, the librarian has been principally occupied with the book as a thing, as a material object. From now on he must give his attention to the book as a living function. He must become a policeman, master of the raging book Picture Quote #1

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The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves lost. And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. Those who accept it have already begun to find themselves, to be on firm ground Picture Quote #1

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One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) Tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) 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 Quotes) What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) When you are fed up with the troublesome present, take your gun, whistle for your dog, and go out to the mountain (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart. Love is an impulse which springs from the most profound depths of our beings, and upon reaching the visible surface of life carries with it an alluvium of shells and seaweed from the inner abyss. A skilled naturalist, by filing these materials, can reconstruct the oceanic depths from which they have been uprooted (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in it a little more of elegance and intensity; then, multiplying all these minute pressures toward the perfecting and deepening of each life by all the others, calculate for yourselves the gigantic enrichment, the fabulous ennobling which this process would create for human society (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) 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 (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other than the sharp peaks of the mountain, the roaming cloud, the stern oak, the trembling juniper, and the passing animal (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) 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 Quotes) We have not reached ethical perfection in hunting. One never achieves perfection in anything, and perhaps it exists precisely so that one can never achieve it. Its purpose is to orient our conduct and to allow us to measure the progress accomplished. In this sense, the advancement achieved in the ethics of hunting is undeniable (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until the present, the librarian has been principally occupied with the book as a thing, as a material object. From now on he must give his attention to the book as a living function. He must become a policeman, master of the raging book (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves lost. And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. Those who accept it have already begun to find themselves, to be on firm ground (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)

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