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Life Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset
- Life is fired at us point blank.
- Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.
- In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his…
- We cannot put off living until we are ready.
- We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement.…
- And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself…
- Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in…
- Life is a series of collisions with the future.
- There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
- Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.
- Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make…
- Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite…
- The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.
- The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves…
- The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man.
- All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.
- Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.…
- [L]ife, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure. It is, in…
- [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.…
- The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and may still be…
- Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
- An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
- Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
- I am I plus my circumstances.
- Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
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