Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Jose Ortega Y Gasset Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
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.
The man's lot is to live his human life,
the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
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.
In order to be enchanted we must be, above all, capable of seeing another person - simply opening one's eyes will not do.
I have long since learned, as a measure of elementary hygiene, to be on guard when anyone quotes Pascal.
The idea of beauty, like a slab of magnificent marble, has crushed all possible refinement and vitality from the psychology of love.
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
Man's real treasure is the treasure of his mistakes, piled up stone by stone through thousands of years
With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.
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.
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.
Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the self-sat-isfied man.
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.
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.
Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one
[ ... ] rationalism is a form of intellectual bigotry which, in thinking about reality, tries to take it into account as little as possible.
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
In a way the philosopher and the barber are of the same guild; the barber cuts hair and the philosopher splits hairs.
The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.
Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.
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.
Let others think what they like: for me, the culmination of life consists of a pure and subtly dramatic passion.
Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world.
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.
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.
The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.
When you are fed up with the troublesome present, take your gun, whistle for your dog, and go out to the mountain.
From my point of view it is immoral for a being not to make the most intense effort every instant of his life.
There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.
Marxian Socialism and Bolshevism are two historical phenomena which have hardly a single common denominator.