Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset

Quotes

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

- 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

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

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

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

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

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

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

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