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Them Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset
- Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.
- By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself…
- The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot…
- I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing his truths, but…
- The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply should we feel,…
- The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace…
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