Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“The existence of language is, in a way, a continual denigration of words.” — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts. — 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
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the… — 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 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 people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to… — 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
This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and… — 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
Life, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Beliefs constitute the basic stratum, that which lies deepest, in the architecture of our life. By them we live, and by the… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“We see, then, that even from the zoological point of view, which is the least interesting and—note this—not decisive, a being in… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been. — 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
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we… — 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
