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.
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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
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
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To live is to feel oneself lost.
Jose 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.
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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.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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