"The type of human being we prefer reveals……" — Jose Ortega y Gasset
"The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart."
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153 Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset has 153 quotes on this site.
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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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More Contours Quotes
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In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a…
— W S Merwin
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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract,…
— Yves Klein
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In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to…
— Tim Pawlenty
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In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way…
— Mark Epstein
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Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same…
— Morton Feldman
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I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We…
— Ben Crenshaw
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Each individual has their own unique color, which shines faintly around the contours of their body. Like a halo. Or…
— Haruki Murakami
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Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.
— Slavoj Žižek
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Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily…
— Alan Cooper
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Sometimes, when we're terrified of embracing our true calling, we'll pursue a shadow calling instead. That shadow career is a…
— Steven Pressfield
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At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours…
— Isabel Allende
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