Ifs Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset

9 Ifs quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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José Ortega y Gasset’s nine “ifs” distill his existential musings into succinct reflections, probing how possibilities shape our reality. The collection offers a compact yet thought‑provoking glimpse into his philosophy.

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The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside…

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One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as…

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I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.

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I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

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If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

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We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from…

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Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we…

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What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling…

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Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from…

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In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything…

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In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of…

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The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of…

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Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

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The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man.

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“For there is no doubt that the most radical division that is possible to make of humanity is that which splits into two classes…

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What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

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To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

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Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.

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Law is born from despair of human nature.

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The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.

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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…

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Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.

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Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up…

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