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Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes

I am I plus my circumstances Picture Quote #1

Law is born from despair of human nature Picture Quote #1

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do Picture Quote #1

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved Picture Quote #1

The will to be oneself is heroism Picture Quote #1

A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation Picture Quote #1

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All we are given are possibilities to make ourselves one thing or another Picture Quote #1

This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well known psychology of the spoilt child Picture Quote #1

All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself Picture Quote #1

Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling Picture Quote #1

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it Picture Quote #1

I am I plus my surroundings, and if I do not preserve the latter I do not preserve myself Picture Quote #1

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By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration Picture Quote #1

One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted...If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he is after is having to win it, to conquer the surly brute through his own effort and skill with all the extras that this carries with it: the immersion in the countryside, the healthfulness of the exercise, the distraction from his job Picture Quote #1

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself Picture Quote #1

The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafe Picture Quote #1

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat Picture Quote #1

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent Picture Quote #1

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When you are fed up with the troublesome present, take your gun, whistle for your dog, and go out to the mountain Picture Quote #1

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I am I plus my circumstances (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) Law is born from despair of human nature (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) The will to be oneself is heroism (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) All we are given are possibilities to make ourselves one thing or another (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well known psychology of the spoilt child (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) I am I plus my surroundings, and if I do not preserve the latter I do not preserve myself (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted...If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he is after is having to win it, to conquer the surly brute through his own effort and skill with all the extras that this carries with it: the immersion in the countryside, the healthfulness of the exercise, the distraction from his job (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafe (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes) When you are fed up with the troublesome present, take your gun, whistle for your dog, and go out to the mountain (Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes)

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