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
[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 heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme. — 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 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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
![“He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that…” 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)
![“[T]he direction of society has been taken over by a…” 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)
![“[I]t would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the…” 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)
