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JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
Spanish philosopher and humanist
(1883 - 1955)

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
      - [Understanding]

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
  [Sp., La civilizacion no es otra cosa que el ensayo de reducir la fuerza a ultima ratio.]
      - La Rebelion de las Masas [Civilization]

I am I plus my surroundings, and if I do not preserve the latter I do not preserve myself.
  [Sp., Yo soy yo y mi circumstancia, y si no la salvo a ella no me salvo yo.]
      - Meditaciones del Quijote [Self]

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