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Only Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset
- Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
- 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…
- There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
- These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.
- The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.
- Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.…
- [L]ife, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure. It is, in…
- He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment, is only acquainted…
- This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform of "youth" as…
- 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…
- 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…
- A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
- On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but…
- Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
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