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

—José Ortega y Gasset

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José Ortega y Gasset (Spanish: [xoˈse oɾˈteɣa i ɣaˈset]; 9 May 1883 – 18 October 1955) was a Spanish philosopher and essayist.

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

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We cannot put off living until we are ready.

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Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

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We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. Lord of all things, he is not lord of himself. He feels lost amid his own abundance. With more means at its disposal, more knowledge, more techniques than ever, it turns out that the world today goes the same way as the worst of worlds that have been: it simply drifts.

—José Ortega y Gasset

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