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Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#being #ceasing #means #person #serious

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#characteristic #commonplace #hour #impose #itself

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#duty #his #life #man #manner

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#discontent #divine #essence #feel #longer

Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was. ↗

— Roger Stone

#away #blown #blown away #course #hated

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's 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

#creatures #efficacy #forgot #fruitful #god

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. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#ends #his #human #human life #invent

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. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#common man #demands #distinguish #excellent #excellent man

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#entirety #escape #fall #history #into

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery. ↗

— Ana Gasteyer

#characteristics #i #like #mockery #opposed