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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
Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being , and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.
— 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. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
— 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.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
I have long since learned, as a measure of elementary hygiene, to be on guard when anyone quotes Pascal.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The real magic wand is the child's own mind.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The idea of beauty, like a slab of magnificent marble, has crushed all possible refinement and vitality from the psychology of love.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Man is a fugitive from nature.
— Jose 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
Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Because man's being is made of strange stuff....
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To remain in the past means to be dead.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
All we are given are possibilities to make ourselves one thing or another.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
I am I and my circumstance; and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Man's real treasure is the treasure of his mistakes, piled up stone by stone through thousands of years
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.
— 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
I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.
— 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.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Triumph cannot help being cruel.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Law is born from despair of human nature.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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— John Williams
If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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[ ... ] rationalism is a form of intellectual bigotry which, in thinking about reality, tries to take it into account as little as possible.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.
— 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.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
To live is to feel oneself lost.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Liberalism ... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Man in a word has no nature; what he has..is history.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
To wonder is to begin to understand.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
In a way the philosopher and the barber are of the same guild; the barber cuts hair and the philosopher splits hairs.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The will to be oneself is heroism
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
I am me and my circumstance
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The abstract is no more than an instrument, an organ, to see the concrete clearly.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Let others think what they like: for me, the culmination of life consists of a pure and subtly dramatic passion.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
I am I plus my circumstances.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
I am myself and my circumstance. I live therefore I think.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
History is the science of people.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
From my point of view it is immoral for a being not to make the most intense effort every instant of his life.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
When you are fed up with the troublesome present, take your gun, whistle for your dog, and go out to the mountain.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do. — 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.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Marxian Socialism and Bolshevism are two historical phenomena which have hardly a single common denominator.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The existence of language is, in a way, a continual denigration of words.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset