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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 Meditations on Quixote (1914)

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Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us — by obligations, not by rights.

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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.

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Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being, and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.

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Nationalism is always an effort in a direction opposite to that of the principle which creates nations. The former is exclusive in tendency, the latter inclusive.

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The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

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