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.Jose Ortega y Gasset
Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.
José Ortega y Gasset
Life means to have something definite to do a mission to fulfill and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.
José Ortega y Gasset
He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new.
José Ortega y Gasset
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
I am I plus my circumstances.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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