| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 43066 |
| QUOTATION: | By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955), Spanish essayist, philosopher. repr. In The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays (1968). “In Search of Goethe from Within,” Partisan Review (New Brunswick, N.J., Dec. 1949). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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