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Jose Ortega y Gasset (Philosopher)

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 future
I am I plus my circumstances.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset life
Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset value
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset wonder
We cannot put off living until we are ready.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset living
For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset great
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 self
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
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 war
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset self
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
Law is born from despair of human nature.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset nature
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 magic
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset you
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 art
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
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset evolution
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
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset hurt
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 existence
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
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
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 men
Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset you
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.“Man has no nature”
— José Ortega y Gasset nature
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
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. As they say in the United States: to be different is to be indecent. The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated. And it is clear, of course, that this everybody is not everybody. Everybody was normally the complex unity of the mass and the divergent, specialised minorities. Nowadays, everybody is the mass alone.Chap.I: The Coming Of The Masses
— José Ortega y Gasset mind

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