Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance. — 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
Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself. — 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
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
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
The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme. — 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
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
Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being , and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he… — 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
Man's being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and… — 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
"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
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
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
[I]t would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of to-day of his lack of moral code. The accusation would… — 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
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
[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
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
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 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
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
[T]he direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation.… — 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… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be.… — 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
![“[I]t would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of to-day of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold, or rather, would flatter him. Immoralism has become a commonplace, and anybody and everybody boasts of practising it.” quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/68b/jose-ortega-y-gasset-1688_accusation_i-t-would-be-a-piece-of-ingenuousness-to_2609384.jpg)
![“[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly mediocre, and even less than mediocre. That is to say, modern science, the root and symbol of our actual civilization, finds a place for…” quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7f5/jose-ortega-y-gasset-1688_civilization_i-t-is-necessary-to-insist-upon-this-ext_1538279.jpg)
![“[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own. Suppose that in the public life of a country some difficulty, conflict, or problem presents itself, the mass-man will tend to demand that the State…” quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/29f/jose-ortega-y-gasset-1688_absorption_t-he-mass-man-sees-in-the-state-an-anony_414993.jpg)
![“[T]he direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of this or that civilisation but from what we can judge to-day of any civilisation. ...[T]he type of man dominant to-day is a primitive one, a Naturmensch rising up in the…” quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bf5/jose-ortega-y-gasset-1688_integrity_t-he-direction-of-society-has-been-taken_2186696.jpg)
![“He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment, is only acquainted with one science, and even of that one only knows the small corner in which he is an active investigator. He even proclaims it as a virtue that he takes no cognisance of what lies…” quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/716/jose-ortega-y-gasset-1688_active_he-the-specialist-is-one-who-out-of-all_1906395.jpg)
