One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
"Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“just because of its promise of unlimited possibilities technology is an empty form like the most formalistic logic and is unable to… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“Man is a fantastic animal; he was born of fantasy, he is the son of "the mad woman of the house." And… — José 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
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
