And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun… — 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
He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The truth is that no horizon is especially interesting by itself, by virtue of its peculiar content, and that any horizon, wide… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“Scientific truth is characterized by its exactness and the rigorous quality of its assumptions. But experimental science wins these admirable qualities at… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in… — 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
