"The man who discovers a new scientific truth……" — Jose Ortega y Gasset
"The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes."
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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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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 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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