Alertness Quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

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

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

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

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“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

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

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

Law is born from despair of human nature.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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