"To be free means to be lacking in…" — Jose Ortega y Gasset

"To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity."

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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153 Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset

Jose Ortega y Gasset has 153 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.
I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
Life is fired at us point blank.
The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of…
The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.
He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a…
Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer…
We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with…
In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero…
Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
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 Constitutive Quotes

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The more I view the independence of the press in its principal effects, the more I convince myself that among… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in… — Michel Foucault
Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When… — Paulo Freire
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect… — Christian Lous Lange
One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the… — Stanley Hauerwas
Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but… — Stanley Hauerwas

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