José Ortega y Gasset - Meditations on Quixote

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Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

José Ortega y Gasset

I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.

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I am I and my circumstance, and if I don't save it I don't save myself.

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When shall we open our minds to the conviction that the ultimate reality of the world is neither matter nor spirit, is no definite thing, but a perspective?

José Ortega y Gasset

I am I plus my surroundings, and if I do not preserve the latter I do not preserve myself.

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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 truth.

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Culture is not life in its entirety, but just the moment of security, strength, and clarity.

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

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The Mediterraneans, who do not think clearly, do see clearly.

José Ortega y Gasset