The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man." — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
In our rather stupid time, hunting is belittled and misunderstood, many refusing to see it for the vital vacation from the human… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I have never said that human society ought to be aristocratic, but a great deal more than that. What I have said,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share
In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share
In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share
The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share
“For there is no doubt that the most radical division that is possible to make of humanity is that which splits into two classes… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share
Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share
The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share
The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share
Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share
Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share
