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
Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, the mass, as a psychological fact, can be defined without waiting for individuals to appear in mass formation. In the… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply… — 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
I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but 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… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
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 Image
![“The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply should we feel, down to the roots of our being, their pressure and their sting. Whose hunger has ever been [sated] with the knowledge that he could not eat?” quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b60/jose-ortega-y-gasset-1688_assurance_the-assurance-that-we-have-no-means-of-a_2279415.jpg)
