In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within. — 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
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
In our rather stupid time, hunting is belittled and misunderstood, many refusing to see it for the vital vacation from the human… — 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
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
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
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving. — 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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