"Human vitality is so exuberant that in the……" — Jose Ortega y Gasset
"Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling."
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
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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 people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets…
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...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely…
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He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the…
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The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either…
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It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this…
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For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the…
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For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help…
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the…
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