The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such… — 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
Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“The characteristic note of our time is the dire truth that, the mediocre soul, the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be mediocre,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“For the first time after so many years I come back to cry aloud in the desert. Because this is the mission… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“This vivid consciousness of not being able to be or to do but one thing at a time purifies our demands of… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“We feel that we actual men have suddenly been left alone on the earth; that the dead did not die in appearance… — José 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
