Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

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• The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.

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  Regret, Past, Ought

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

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  Gratitude, Attention, Pay

  "Man and Crisis". Book by José Ortega y Gasset, p. 94, 1962.

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• To wonder is to begin to understand.

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  Wonder

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

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  Mistake, Morality, Moral

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• Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

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  Moving On, Moving Forward, Decision

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• The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection, mere buoys that float on the waves.

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  Adversity, Men, Class

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset, p. 15, 1929.

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• Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

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  Anger, Hatred, Feelings

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• Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

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  Inspirational, Life, Bad Ass

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• The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves lost. And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. Those who accept it have already begun to find themselves, to be on firm ground.

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  Acceptance, Simple, Clear Head

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• I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

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  Land, Stewardship, Environment

  Meditaciones del Quijote "Lector" (1914)

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• Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

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  Basketball, Art, Hurt

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• Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

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  Feelings, Inferiority, Rancor

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• [T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own. Suppose that in the public life of a country some difficulty, conflict, or problem presents itself, the mass-man will tend to demand that the State intervene immediately and undertake a solution directly with its immense and unassailable resources. This is the gravest danger that to-day threatens civilisation: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State.

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  Country, Believe, Men

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

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  Mean, Men, Excellence

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• We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

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  Fall, History, Needs

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• Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.

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  Life, Mean, Emptiness

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• The will to be oneself is heroism

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  Heroism, Oneself

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• We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.

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  Sarcastic, Falling In Love, Valentine

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• The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

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  Heart, Emotional, Type

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• We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

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  Life, Success, Men

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• Life is fired at us point blank.

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  Life, Life Is, Blank

  Jose Ortega y Gasset (2014). “Mission of the University”, p.51, Routledge

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• We cannot put off living until we are ready.

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  Inspirational Life, Ready

  "'Misión de la Universidad' ('Mission of the University')". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, translated by Howard Lee Nostrand, p. 73, 1946.

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• What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

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  Men, Mediocre, Nations

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• The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

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  Inspirational, Adversity, Order

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• Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.

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  One Thing

  Jose Ortega y Gasset (2014). “Mission of the University”, p.35, Routledge

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