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~ Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes ~
« on: January 21, 2015, 01:49:14 PM »
Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes


A Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist working during the first half of the 20th century while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship.
Jose Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist working during the first half of the 20th century while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship. He was, along with Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, a proponent of the idea of perspectivism.

Here are some famous quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset.




All life is the struggle the effort to be itself.
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Re: ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes ~
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2015, 01:49:44 PM »
Man adapts himself to everything to the best and the worst.
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« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2015, 01:50:17 PM »
Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.
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Re: ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes ~
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2015, 01:50:54 PM »
The past will not tell us what we ought to do but... what we ought to avoid.
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Re: ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes ~
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2015, 01:51:30 PM »
Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
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Re: ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes ~
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2015, 01:52:27 PM »
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
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« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2015, 01:53:03 PM »
Abasement degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
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Re: ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes ~
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2015, 01:53:41 PM »
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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Re: ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes ~
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2015, 01:54:33 PM »
To live means to have ... a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something we make it empty.
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Re: ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes ~
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2015, 01:55:18 PM »
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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Re: ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes ~
« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2015, 01:56:12 PM »
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
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Re: ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes ~
« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2015, 01:56:57 PM »
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.
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Re: ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes ~
« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2015, 01:57:29 PM »
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent 'here and now ' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.
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