"Man must not only make himself: the weightiest……" — Jose Ortega y Gasset
"Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power."
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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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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.
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No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and…
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The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
— William Barclay
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The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security…
— Dave Barry
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
— Alfred Adler
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There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your…
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to…
— Julia Margaret Cameron
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After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a…
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