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).
