"By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify……" — Jose Ortega y Gasset
"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 an exaggeration."
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153 Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset
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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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The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
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To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force…
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Our intention is to clarify and modernize overtime pay rules,
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Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.
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All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and…
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Absolutely, but let me qualify that-I consider myself an authentic feminist. Not as defined by the modern movement. And, let…
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