Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes - Page 7

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• Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life, Inspire, Burning

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• Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Destiny, Hands, Danger

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

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• "Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hunting, Men, Historical

  Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.125, Wilderness Adventures Press

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• Beliefs constitute the basic stratum, that which lies deepest, in the architecture of our life. By them we live, and by the same token we rarely think of them.... One may symbolize the individual life as a bank of issue. The bank lives on the credit of a gold reserve which is rarely seen, which lies at the bottom of metal coffers hidden in the vaults of the building. The most elementary caution will suggest that from time to time the effective condition of these guaranties--of these credences, one might say, that are the basis of credit--be passed in review.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Lying, Thinking, Issues

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• A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Marijuana, Years, Effectiveness

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• The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Love, Men, Essence

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• Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which can be called "public" or "popular" opinion.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Meditation, Doe, Opinion

  "What is Philosophy?". Book by José Ortega y Gasset, p. 15, 1964.

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• The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hero, Society, Ancestor

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• There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Two, World, May

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• To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hands, Heavy, Firm

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

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• In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which he may chart his course, only one limit: the past.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Past, Lines, May

  "History as a System". Book by José Ortega y Gasset, transleted by ‎Helene Weyl. Chapter "Man has no nature", 1962.

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• The truth is that no horizon is especially interesting by itself, by virtue of its peculiar content, and that any horizon, wide or narrow, brilliant or dull, varied or monotonous, may possess an interest of its own which merely requires a vital adjustment to be discovered.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Interesting, Peculiar, Horizon

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• Triumph cannot help being cruel.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Triumph, Helping, Conquest

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• I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Class, Hatred, Society

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• Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Cry, Planets, Liberalism

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

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• Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Glowing, Vitality, Desert

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• The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and may still be considered as the commonplace of everyday thinking. ... An innate blindness seems to have closed the eyes of this epoch to all but those facts which show life as a phenomenon of utility

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Eye, Thinking, Everyday

  "History as a System". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1962.

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• The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to write) where others have written "jasmines, swans and fauns." But what he has really done has been simply to bring to light another form of rhetoric which hitherto lay hidden in the latrines.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Writing, Thinking, Swans

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

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• I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing his truths, but when he is ready to enunciate them and give them out, he ought to avoid the cynical skill with which some scientists, like a Hercules at the fair, amuse themselves by displaying to the public the biceps of their technique.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Thinking, Skills, Giving

  "What is Philosophy?". Book by José Ortega y Gasset, 1964.

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