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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.... — Ortega Y Gasset, Jose

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

a quotation from the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset as an epigraph for Stoner: "A hero is one who wants to be himself." In — 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

[ ... ] 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