It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would… — 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… — 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
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
Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures:… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform… — 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
If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man." — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle. — 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
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