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Category: José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

Fall, Escape, See

José Ortega y Gasset

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

Youth, Living, Reasons

José Ortega y Gasset

An ‘unemployed’ existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

Life, Existence, Worse

José Ortega y Gasset

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

Good, Man, Landscape

José Ortega y Gasset

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

Me, Attention, You

José 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.

Nature, Love Is, Human

José Ortega y Gasset

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent “here and now ” without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

José Ortega y Gasset

The past will not tell us what we ought to do but… what we ought to avoid.

José Ortega y Gasset

Abasement degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

José Ortega y Gasset

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

self, acceptance

José Ortega y Gasset

All life is the struggle the effort to be itself.

José Ortega y Gasset

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

patriotism, nationalism