The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.
Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset (55)
Birth: | 9th May, 1883 |
Death: | 18th October, 1955 |
Nationality: | Spanish |
Profession: | Essayist, Philosopher |
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