Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes & Quotations

Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes

» By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

» The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

» I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

» Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

» 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.

» Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

» Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

» The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

» To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

» The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafT.

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