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Jose Ortega y Gasset has 154 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.
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I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.
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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
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Life is fired at us point blank.
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The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos…
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The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.
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He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture,…
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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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We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love…
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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…
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Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
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If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
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