Debris Quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.” quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset — Download Open image

“Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.”

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It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him…

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In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything…

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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 fortress of…

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The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of…

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Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

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The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man.

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“For there is no doubt that the most radical division that is possible to make of humanity is that which splits into two classes of creatures: those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are,…

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What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

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To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

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Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.

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Law is born from despair of human nature.

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The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.

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All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only…

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“What can you expect from a stupid government? Anything good? Anything useful, anything clever? Anything just? No! You can expect nothing but stupidity, nothing…

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God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is…

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Look here brother, who you jivin' with that cosmik debris?

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When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close…

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When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today, and all the stars were lined up in their proper places, so you could easily count them from left to right, or top to bottom, and the larger and bluer ones were set apart, and the smaller, yellowing types pushed off to the corners as bodies of…

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Love is like a tide. When it's in, everything looks beautiful and inviting. Only when love recedes can you see the debris beneath the…

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I have no policy for my collection. For example, there's a bunch of meteorite [on the windowsill in my studio]. I touch it and I feel the energy from the universe. I have a 1/1,000th of a fragment of stone-age tools and pottery and debris. I can learn many things from my collection. Actually, the 1,000 Buddha, I wanted to…

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The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism and hatred it replaces old prejudices with new one. It declares certain topics off-limits, certain expressions off-limits, even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into…

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The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival.

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“Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere.”

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Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the…

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