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Jose Ortega Y Gasset - From the Aging category:
Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness. (Jose Ortega Y Gasset)
Jose Ortega Y Gasset - From the Artists category:
Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist. (Jose Ortega Y Gasset)
Jose Ortega Y Gasset - From the Conviction category:
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. (Jose Ortega Y Gasset)
Jose Ortega Y Gasset - From the Culture category:
The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture. (Jose Ortega Y Gasset)
Jose Ortega Y Gasset - From the Ego category:
I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself. (Jose Ortega Y Gasset)
Jose Ortega Y Gasset - From the Fear category:
Today I am more than ever frightened. I wish it would dawn upon engineers that, in order to be an engineer, it is not enough to be an engineer. (Jose Ortega Y Gasset)
Jose Ortega Y Gasset - From the Ideas category:
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. Lord of all things, he is not lord of himself. (Jose Ortega Y Gasset)
Jose Ortega Y Gasset - From the Life category:
Life is a series of collisions with the future. (Jose Ortega Y Gasset)
Jose Ortega Y Gasset - From the Portraiture category:
The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things. (Jose Ortega Y Gasset)
Jose Ortega Y Gasset - From the Possibilities category:
All we are given are possibilities – to make ourselves one thing or another. (Jose Ortega Y Gasset)
Jose Ortega Y Gasset - From the Writing category:
The metaphor is perhaps the 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. (Jose Ortega Y Gasset)
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