Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence. — Jose 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
Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts. — 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
The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“The existence of language is, in a way, a continual denigration of words.” — José 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
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
