Jose Ortega y GassetThe 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… ▶361HumanityReadingThought
Jose Ortega y GassetCivilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.341Humanity
Jose Ortega y GassetBarbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. ✨ Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). the Revolt of the Masses352Time
Jose Ortega y GassetThe type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.363HumanityLove
Jose Ortega y GassetMan in a word has no nature; what he has... is history. ✨ History as a System. Book by José Ortega y Gasset, 1935.352Reading
Jose Ortega y GassetAbasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.353Life
Jose Ortega y GassetIn our rather stupid time, hunting is belittled and misunderstood, many refusing to see it for the vital vacation from the human condition that it is, or to acknowledge that the h… ▶353HumanityTime
Jose Ortega y GassetBeing an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.354Hope
Jose Ortega y GassetMan is a fugitive from nature. ✨ Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). Meditations on Hunting, p.129, Wilderness Adventures Press377Humanity
Jose Ortega y GassetStupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.301Truth
Jose Ortega y GassetPoetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.345Life
Jose Ortega y GassetIn 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.302LifePolitics
Jose Ortega y GassetHe who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide … ▶291ThoughtTruth
Jose Ortega y GassetLife 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.313HopeLifeTime
Jose Ortega y GassetThe difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.302Life
Jose Ortega y GassetThere are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall.379HumanityTimeTruth
Jose Ortega y GassetAll we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another. ✨ Mission of the University.281Time
Jose Ortega y GassetRevolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one ✨ Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). the Revolt of… ▶336Hope
Jose Ortega y GassetWhen you are fed up with the troublesome present, you take your gun, whistle for your dog, go out to the mountain, and, without further ado, give yourself the pleasure during a fe… ▶358Time
Jose Ortega y GassetNatural man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, … ▶303Life
Jose Ortega y GassetI am I plus my circumstances.271Truth
Jose Ortega y GassetThe real magic wand is the child's own mind.359Thought
Jose Ortega y GassetHere, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until the present, the librarian has been princip… ▶337LifeReadingTime
Jose Ortega y GassetWe need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.3610Love
Jose Ortega y GassetThere 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.305Reflection
Jose Ortega y GassetTell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are. ✨ Man and Crisis. Book by José Ortega y Gasset, p. 94, 1962.305Reading
Jose Ortega y GassetAnd this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground. ✨ The Revolt of the Masses. Bo… ▶305ReadingTruth
Jose Ortega y GassetI am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.306Time
Jose Ortega y GassetThe poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.285HumanityLife
Jose Ortega y GassetThe good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.263Life
