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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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Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative…
— Waverley Root
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It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country, to tend it…
— Unknown Author
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It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the…
— Christopher Lasch
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He was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this; had any…
— Martin Amis
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If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history,…
— Joseph Goebbels
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I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!
— Jules Verne
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I am going to kill you," he hissed. She gulped. "Don't you want to lecture me first?" He stared at her with…
— Julia Quinn
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