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Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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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.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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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
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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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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
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There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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