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
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
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
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence. — 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
Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. — 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
“For there is no doubt that the most radical division that is possible to make of humanity is that which splits into two classes of creatures: those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are,… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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
