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Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes: With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.
         

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.


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Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.



We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.



The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.



Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.



Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.



Life is a series of collisions with the future.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.



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

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



An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.



To wonder is to begin to understand.

To wonder is to begin to understand.



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.

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.





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There's nothing greater than a girl.... Well a kid, your daughter, but that's a girl too.



This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions

This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions



Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached.

Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached.



The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.

The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.



We do not posses God. We find him periodically.

We do not posses God. We find him periodically.



His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. Like them, he was slandered and misunderstood.

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. Like them, he was slandered and misunderstood.




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