"Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life……" — Jose Ortega y Gasset
"Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be."
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
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153 Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset has 153 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer…
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We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with…
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In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero…
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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…
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More Abasement Quotes
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Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself…
— Mark the Evangelist
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Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness.…
— John Owen
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Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated…
— Christopher Hitchens
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But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from…
— Stephen Mitchell
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Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape…
— Ayn Rand
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It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to…
— Aristotle
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The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
— Karl Marx
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There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the…
— Victor Hugo
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Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.
— Dag Hammarskjold
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There are times when I, without willing it, mount to the height of contemplation; with my will I am drawn…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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... We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical…
— James Randi
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Mary lived in the divine Eucharist, the center of her love. All her thoughts, words, and actions sprang from It…
— Peter Julian Eymard
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