Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset

Jose Ortega y Gasset

And this is the simple truth – that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.

Accepting

Life

Simple

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Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

Absence

Barbarism

Made

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Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

Art

Mean

Serious Person

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Beliefs constitute the basic stratum, that which lies deepest, in the architecture of our life. By them we live, and by the same token we rarely think of them…. One may symbolize the individual life as a bank of issue. The bank lives on the credit of a gold reserve which is rarely seen, which lies at the bottom of metal coffers hidden in the vaults of the building. The most elementary caution will suggest that from time to time the effective condition of these guaranties–of these credences, one might say, that are the basis of credit–be passed in review.

Issues

Lying

Thinking

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Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

Genius

Inspirational

Magic

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Biography – a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Biographies

Contradiction

Human Life

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By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

Exaggeration Is

Force

Thinking

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Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

Civilization

Lasts

Resorts

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Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

Civilization

Effort

Power

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Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.

Intellectual

Mundane

Transportation

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