Spanish - Philosopher | May 9, 1883 - October 18, 1955
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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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
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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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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
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We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
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Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
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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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Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
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To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
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Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.
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To live is to feel oneself lost.
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