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Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes
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Type: Philosopher Quotes Category: Spanish Philosopher Quotes Date of Birth: May 9, 1883 Date of Death: October 18, 1955 Nationality: Spanish Find on Amazon: Jose Ortega y Gasset Related Authors: Friedrich Nietzsche Thomas Carlyle Plato Aristotle Blaise Pascal Francis Bacon Bertrand Russell George Santayana |
A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation. 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 An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. Jose Ortega y Gasset An idea is a putting truth in check-mate. Jose Ortega y Gasset Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. Jose Ortega Y Gasset Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist. Jose Ortega y Gasset 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 Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. Jose Ortega Y Gasset Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. Jose Ortega y Gasset Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do. Jose Ortega y Gasset For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great. Jose Ortega y Gasset Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. Jose Ortega y Gasset I am I plus my circumstances. 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. Jose Ortega y Gasset Law is born from despair of human nature. 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 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 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 Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. Jose Ortega Y Gasset Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority. Jose Ortega y Gasset Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are. Jose Ortega y Gasset 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 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 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 The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. Jose Ortega y Gasset The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. 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 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 There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other. Jose Ortega y Gasset To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. Jose Ortega y Gasset To live is to feel oneself lost. Jose Ortega y Gasset To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat. Jose Ortega Y Gasset Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions. Jose Ortega y Gasset 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. 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 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. Jose Ortega y Gasset Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts. Jose Ortega y Gasset |
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