Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset

Quotes

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

I am I plus my circumstances.

I am I plus my circumstances.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

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.

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.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

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

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