July 10, 2011

Torn between both impulses

Doubtless the most radical division of humanity that can be made is that between two classes of creatures: those who demand much of themselves and assume a burden of tasks and difficulties, and those who require nothing special of themselves, but rather for whom to live is to be in every instant only what they already are.
José Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses

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