« All Us Quotes · Jose Ortega y Gasset's Page
Us Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset
- Life is fired at us point blank.
- He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which…
- The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.
- 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.…
- 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…
- By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself…
- We have not reached ethical perfection in hunting. One never achieves perfection in anything, and perhaps it exists precisely so that one can never achieve…
- The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot…
- This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires,…
- 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…
- Every intellectual effort sets us apart from the commonplace, and leads us by hidden and difficult paths to secluded spots where we find ourselves amid…
- On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but…
- Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong