54 Quotations by Jose Ortega y Gasset
- 1. A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing ...

- 2. A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generati ...

- 3. Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his ...

- 4. All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.

- 5. An "unemployed" existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

- 6. An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

- 7. An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.'

- 8. Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be us ...

- 9. Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

- 10. By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things. That forces us to exacerbate them, disloca ...

- 11. Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

- 12. Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

- 13. Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

- 14. For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

- 15. I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

- 16. I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel ...

- 17. In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the p ...

- 18. Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right ...

- 19. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in p ...

- 20. Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we ...

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