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Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

Jose Ortega y Gasset quotes

Spanish Philosopher May 9, 1883 – October 18, 1955

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In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart. Love is an impulse which springs from the most profound depths of our beings, and upon reaching the visible surface of life carries with it an alluvium of shells and seaweed from the inner abyss. A skilled naturalist, by filing these materials, can reconstruct the oceanic depths from which they have been uprooted. Jose Ortega y Gasset
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
Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility. Jose Ortega y Gasset
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
just because of its promise of unlimited possibilities technology is an empty form like the most formalistic logic and is unable to determine the content of life. that is why our time, being the most intensely technical, is also the emptiest in all human history. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than..."
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. Jose Ortega y Gasset
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 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
On the Bigotry of Culture:: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live..."
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
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have..."
Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the..."
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
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human..."
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man..."
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
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. Jose Ortega y Gasset

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