Jose Ortega y Gasset

Law is born from despair of human nature. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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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. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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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

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The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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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. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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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. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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