Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one… — 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
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
Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving. — 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
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within. — 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
This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment,… — 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
![“He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment, is only acquainted with one science, and even of that one only knows the small corner in which he is an active investigator. He even proclaims it as a virtue that he takes no cognisance of what lies…” quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/716/jose-ortega-y-gasset-1688_active_he-the-specialist-is-one-who-out-of-all_1906395.jpg)
