54 Quotations by Jose Ortega y Gasset
- 21. Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to l ...

- 22. Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

- 23. Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyo ...

- 24. Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.

- 25. Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

- 26. Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up f ...

- 27. Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Li ...

- 28. Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

- 29. Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the ...

- 30. Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

- 31. Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

- 32. Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.

- 33. The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has t ...

- 34. The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has t ...

- 35. The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced ...

- 36. The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mo ...

- 37. The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we ...

- 38. The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploratio ...

- 39. The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the ca ...

- 40. The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and ...

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