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Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

Jose Ortega y Gasset quotes about manly

Spanish Philosopher May 9, 1883 – October 18, 1955

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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. Jose Ortega y Gasset
In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live..."
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. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man..."
Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man..."
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. Jose Ortega y Gasset
The metaphor is perhaps the most fruitful power of man. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. Jose Ortega y Gasset
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. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable..."
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions. Jose Ortega y Gasset
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man"
The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than..."
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do. Jose Ortega y Gasset
man, then, rather than by what he he is, or by what he has, escapes the zooological scale by what he does, by his conduct. hence it is that he must always keep watch on himself. Jose Ortega y Gasset

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