“Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.”

— José Ortega Y Gasset

Meditations on Quixote (1914)
Source: as quoted in Susan Ratcliffe (ed.), Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subject, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010-03-11, page 223, ISBN 9780199567065

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Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist 1883–1955

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