Quotes By 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.

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.

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.

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.