Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

Quote by Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but...

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but...

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

I am I plus my circumstances.

I am I plus my circumstances.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the...

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the...

To live is to feel oneself lost.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new...

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new...

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace,...

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace,...

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to...

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to...

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the...

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the...

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what...

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what...

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic,...

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic,...

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

To live is to feel oneself lost

To live is to feel oneself lost

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son....

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son....

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

If we have freedom, we have life. Therefore to live, we must love our fellow...

If we have freedom, we have life. Therefore to live, we must love our fellow...