Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset

Quotes

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

I am I plus my circumstances.

I am I plus my circumstances.

- 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

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

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

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

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

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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