Best quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset on Man

Checkout quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset on Man

• ‟ 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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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

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• ‟ Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

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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 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 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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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

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