All life is the struggle the effort to be itself.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
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What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
To live means to have ... a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something we make it empty.
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities.
Man adapts himself to everything to the best and the worst.