Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes & Quotations

Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes

» This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.

» An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

» Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

» Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.

» Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

» 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.

» 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.

» 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.

» Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

» 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.

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