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Which Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset
- Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
- Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
- A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
- Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
- The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
- The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
- Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each…
- 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…
- Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
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