Quotes by Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Spanish writer and philosopher

Lived from: 1883 - 1955

Category: Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagSpain

Born: 9 may 1883 Died: 18 october 1955

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  • The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
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  • 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.
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  • The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
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  • The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.
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  • 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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  • There is but one way left to save a classic: to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
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  • 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.
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  • To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
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  • We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
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  • Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
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  • Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
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