57 ordspråk av José Ortega y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset
Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
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Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one
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Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one
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Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
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Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are
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The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
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The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
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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.
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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.
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The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
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The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafe.
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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.
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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.
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The real magic wand is the child's own mind
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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.
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