Philosophy Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset

8 Philosophy quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Ortega y Gasset’s focus on individual perspective shines in eight brief quotes that challenge how we define ourselves.

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“Man is a fantastic animal; he was born of fantasy, he is the son of "the mad woman of the house." And…

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“For the first time after so many years I come back to cry aloud in the desert. Because this is the mission…

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The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other…

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“We see, then, that even from the zoological point of view, which is the least interesting and—note this—not decisive, a being in…

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I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing…

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“Next time we will look at this from a much more basic point of view and one antedating all zoology, which, glimpsed…

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I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it…

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“Scientific truth is characterized by its exactness and the rigorous quality of its assumptions. But experimental science wins these admirable qualities at…

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It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him…

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In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything…

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In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of…

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The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of…

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Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

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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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“For there is no doubt that the most radical division that is possible to make of humanity is that which splits into two classes…

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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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The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how…

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

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Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up…

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