Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Poetry, Preserved, Thus

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

Realize, Order, Meet

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Nature, Good, Through

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

Life, Live, Human

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

Him, Give, Left

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

Understand, Wonder, Begin

To live is to feel oneself lost.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Live, Lost, Oneself

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Question, Hand, Rule

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

Time, Give, 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

Great, Saying, Makes

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

History, Fall, Escape

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

Time, Live, Himself

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Living, Youth, Needs

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Philosopher

Born: May 9, 1883

Died: October 18, 1955

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