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Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Jose Ortega y Gasset
Men, Europe, Giving
Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything to which to give themselves.

Jose Ortega y Gasset
Motivation, Years, Giving

The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.

Jose Ortega y Gasset
Believe, Law, Giving

Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until the present, the librarian has been principally occupied with the book as a thing, as a material object. From now on he must give his attention to the book as a living function. He must become a policeman, master of the raging book.

Jose Ortega y Gasset
Book, Giving, Library

I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing his truths, but when he is ready to enunciate them and give them out, he ought to avoid the cynical skill with which some scientists, like a Hercules at the fair, amuse themselves by displaying to the public the biceps of their technique.

Jose Ortega y Gasset
Thinking, Skills, Giving
"What is Philosophy?". Book by José Ortega y Gasset, 1964.

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