Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset

Quotes

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 cannot put off living until we are ready.

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

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

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

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

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 will.

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 will.

- 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

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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