"tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality."
― José Ortega y Gasset
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"Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do."
― José Ortega y Gasset
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"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. "
― José Ortega y Gasset |
"Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been."
― José Ortega y Gasset
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"Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are."
― José Ortega y Gasset |
"Persistent ill-humour is all too clear an indication that someone is living contrary to his/her intended purpose."
― José Ortega y Gasset
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"Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility."
― José Ortega y Gasset
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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."
― José Ortega y Gasset
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"I am I and my circumstance; and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself."
― José Ortega y Gasset
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"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."
― José Ortega y Gasset
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"There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall. "
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