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"27 José Ortega y Gasset Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 9 May 1883. Died: 18 October 1955 | Philosopher | Essayist |

To remain in the past means to be dead.

Remain Past Dead
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To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

Surprised Wonder Begin Understand
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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Effort Begins Hurt
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Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.

Tell me Pay attention Who
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Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

Living Process Deciding
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The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

Metaphor Fertile Power Man
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There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress

Doubt Rejection Shadow Caress
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Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.

Life Ruin Discover Person
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I am I and my circumstance; and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself.

Circumstance Save Myself
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The existence of language is, in a way, a continual denigration of words.

Existence Language Words
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The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Human being Prefers Contours Heart
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Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

Thinking Desire Reality Ideas
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We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

Live Time Believes Creation
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Man's real treasure is the treasure of his mistakes, piled up stone by stone through thousands of years

Man's Treasure Mistakes Years
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Persistent ill-humour is all too clear an indication that someone is living contrary to his or her intended purpose.

Humour Living Purpose
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Tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

Tragedy Theater Heroic Reality
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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

Poet Live Invent Human life
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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.

Life Collisions Future Yearn
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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving

Live Think Succeed Surviving
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With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

Morality Mistakes Instincts Love
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The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.

Past Avoid
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The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.

Heart Man Excellent Supreme
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Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

Civilization Reduce Last resort
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The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.

Choice View Act Culture
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Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

Hatred Feeling Extinction Values
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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Excellence Man Woman Himself
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Life is fired at us point blank.

Life Fired Point blank
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José Ortega y Gasset Quotes & Sayings