"The tapestry of history that seems so full……" — Jose Ortega y Gasset
"The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side. In truth, tragedy and comedy are the twin masks of history - its mass appeal."
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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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