“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“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“Law is born from despair of human nature.”
Jose Ortega y Gasset“Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.”
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“I am I plus my circumstances.”
Jose Ortega y Gasset“We cannot put off living until we are ready.”
Jose Ortega y Gasset“An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.”
Jose Ortega y Gasset“For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.”
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“Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.”
Jose Ortega y Gasset