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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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Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up..."
There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation. Jose Ortega y Gasset
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. Jose Ortega y Gasset
In the disturbances caused by scarcity of food, the mob goes in search of bread, and the means it employs is generally to wreck the bakeries. This may serve as a symbol of the attitude adopted, on a greater and more complicated scale, by the masses of today towards the civilization by which they are supported? Civilization is not "just here," it is not self-supporting. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man..."
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "Law is born from despair of human nature."
Law is born from despair of human nature. Jose Ortega y Gasset
The metaphor is perhaps the most fruitful power of man. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. Jose Ortega y Gasset
There 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. Jose Ortega y Gasset
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. Jose Ortega y Gasset
The characteristic note of our time is the dire truth that, the mediocre soul, the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be mediocre, has the gall to assert its right to mediocrity, and goes on to impose itself where it can. Jose Ortega y Gasset
For there is no doubt that the most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection; mere buoys that float on the waves. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover..."
tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable..."
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt."
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great..."
For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great. Jose Ortega y Gasset

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