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~ Josi Ortega y Gasset Quotes ~
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Josi 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.

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I am I plus my circumstances.

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« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2015, 10:46:45 AM »
Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.

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« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2015, 10:47:24 AM »
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

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« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2015, 10:47:55 AM »
To excel the past we must not allow ourselves to lose contact with it; on the contrary we must feel it under our feet because we raised ourselves upon it.

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« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2015, 10:48:27 AM »
All life is the struggle the effort to be itself. The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities.