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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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" 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. "

Jose Ortega y Gasset

First

World

Nobility

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

" 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. "

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

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

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Others

Man

" To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. "

" We cannot put off living until we are ready. "

" 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. "

" Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. "

" Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. "

" To live is to feel oneself lost. "

" Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. "

" Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" An idea is a putting truth in check-mate. "

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

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

" The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. "

" 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. "

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

" To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat. "

" We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving. "

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

" I am I plus my circumstances. "

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life

Plus

" Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are. "

" 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. "

" Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. "

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