Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

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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

Life, Future, Series

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

Love, Nature, Someone

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life, Death, Worse

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Tell, Attention, Pay

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Great, Person, Small

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

Life, Political, Hero

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Live, May, Succeed

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Made, Absence, Standards

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Feeling, Outpouring

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Revolution, Generation, Period

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Person, Serious, Means

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Hurt, Effort, Begins

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Mind, Knowing, Rights

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

Love, Longer, Divine

We cannot put off living until we are ready.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Living, Cannot, Put

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

Life, Simply, Duty

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Truth, Idea, Putting

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Used, Genius, Wants

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life, Human, System

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Woman, Others, Means

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Feeling, Hatred, Values

I am I plus my circumstances.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Law is born from despair of human nature.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Nature, Human, Law

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life, Future, Forward

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Living, Process, Constant

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Philosopher

Born: May 9, 1883

Died: October 18, 1955

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