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Life is Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset

9 Life is quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Ortega y Gasset’s philosophical eye focuses on the lived experience, and these nine short lines bring his contemplative style to everyday moments. They’re a modest yet potent collection that invites you to pause and consider how you shape your own narrative.

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

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Life is fired at us point blank.

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Life is a series of collisions with the future.

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Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the…

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Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.

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Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.

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We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without…

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Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a pretty thing…

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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…

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The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man.

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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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To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

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Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.

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Law is born from despair of human nature.

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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.

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Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.

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