“The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to write) where others have written "jasmines, swans and fauns." But what he has really done has been simply to bring to light another form of rhetoric which hitherto lay hidden in the latrines.” ThinkingNeedsWritingHas BeensDoneWholeLightFormWrittenLaysRhetoricSwansJasmineSurrealistFauns Book:the Revolt of the Masses Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other.” IfsDoeFormMoralityNegativeEmptyPreservesSubmitLackingNormImmoralGrammarUnwillingAmorality Book:the Revolt of the Masses Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a matter of honor today than ever before to be open to all minds ... This is different from the individual sciences which increasingly [interpose] between the treasure of their discoveries and the curiosity of the profane the tremendous dragon of their closed terminology.” MindDifferentMatterTodayFormIndividualDisciplineHonorDiscoveryCuriosityPhilosopherTreasureClarityDragonsCourtesyProfaneTerminology Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act of permanent rebellion and subversion against social environs.” WritingWellsFormLanguageSocialCurrentsPermanentRebellionNormGrammarErosionSubversion Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.” MindStatesFormFallLove IsFalling In LoveState Of MindInferiorsTransitoryImbecility Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.” LifeFormLife IsAnswersExistenceStrugglePlansConceptsStrategicLife Is A Struggle Book:the Revolt of the Masses Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“"Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.” MenFirstsLittlesStillsFormLostNaturalAliveHistoricalHuntingHuntersSleepyPrehistoricPrehistoric Man Book:Meditations on Hunting Source: Meditations on Hunting
“Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.” WellsTodayFormExistenceEnemyShareCryPlanetsDeterminationWeakMajoritySupremeGenerosityLiberalismMinoritiesRecalls Book:the Revolt of the Masses Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."” MenHumansSelfFormSpeciesHuman LifeSatContradictoryComplacencyHuman Species Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
