Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges — Jose Ortega y Gasset
We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Contrary to the unsophisticated suggestions of melodrama, to rule is not so much — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
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
I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafe. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely — Jose Ortega y Gasset
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Under the species of syndicalism and fascism there appears for the first time in europe — Jose Ortega y Gasset
In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers — Jose Ortega y Gasset