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• Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Order, Uprising, Revolution

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

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• Life, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure. It is, in the strict sense of the word, drama. The primary, radical meaning of life appears when it is employed in the sense not of biology, but of biography. For the very strong reason that the whole of biology is quite definitely only a chapter in certain biographies, it is what biologists do in the portion of their lives open to biography.

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  Strong, Drama, Adventure

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter IX: "The Primitive and the Technical", 1929.

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• The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.

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  Book, Library, Librarian

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• One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.

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  Song, History, Age

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• Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life Is, Fame, Boundaries

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• Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.

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  Life, Struggle, Answers

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

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• Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Intellectual, Transportation, Mundane

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

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• 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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  History, Tragedy, Woven

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• A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is in a relationship of superiority or inferiority with regard to every other. Strict equality is exceedingly improbable and anomalous.

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  Hunting, Animal, Facts

  Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.106, Wilderness Adventures Press

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• It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.

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  Men, Generations, Great Men

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• On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.

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  Mean, Essence, Culture

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• Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Determine

  "Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre". Book by Walter Kaufmann, 1956.

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• In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

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  Hero, Men, Order

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• Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

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  Adolescence, Poetry Is

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• What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other.

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  Negative, Doe, Morality

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

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• The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.

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  Exhausted, Preoccupation, Should

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• Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

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  Mean, Reality, Thinking

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• There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

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  Giving Up, Use, Way

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• The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

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  Art, Arrogance, Trends

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• We have not reached ethical perfection in hunting. One never achieves perfection in anything, and perhaps it exists precisely so that one can never achieve it. Its purpose is to orient our conduct and to allow us to measure the progress accomplished. In this sense, the advancement achieved in the ethics of hunting is undeniable.

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  Hunting, Perfection, Progress

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• Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

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  Inspirational, Magic, Genius

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• The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing minorities and put themselves in their place. Then, also, is produced the phenomenon of agglomeration, of "the full." For that reason, as Spengler has very well observed, it was necessary, just as in our day, to construct enormous buildings. The epoch of the masses is the epoch of the colossal.

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  Uprising, Minorities, Empires

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

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• The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.

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  Dream, World, Possibility

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

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• The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.

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  Freedom, Democracy, Details

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• Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.

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  Love, Soul, States

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