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" 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

Doing

Direction

Life

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Man

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Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life

Plus

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

" There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation. "

" Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do. "

" An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. "

" 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. "

" There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other. "

" Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it. "