This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. — Jose 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. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Liberalism — it is well to recall this today — is the supreme form of generosity — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that — Jose Ortega y Gasset
By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
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
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic — Jose Ortega y Gasset
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former — Jose Ortega y Gasset
I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future — Jose 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. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Liberalism is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities — Jose Ortega y Gasset