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Up Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset
- Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
- Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one
- When you are fed up with the troublesome present, take your gun, whistle for your dog, and go out to the mountain.
- 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…
- 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 (mise…
- Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until…
- This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires,…
- [T]he direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of this…
- 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…
- The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and may still be…
- There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
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