“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.”
― José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
“Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.”
― José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
“The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man”
― José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
“Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia.”
("I am I and my circumstance")
― José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
“We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.”
― José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
“I am I and my circumstance; and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself.”
― José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
“Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.”
― José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
“To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.”
― José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
“Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.”
― José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
“just because of its promise of unlimited possibilities technology is an empty form like the most formalistic logic and is unable to determine the content of life. That is why our time,being the most intensely technical,is also the emptiest in all human history.”
― José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
“There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall.”
― José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
“I am myself and my circumstance. I live therefore I think.”
― José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
“In a way the philosopher and the barber are of the same guild; the barber cuts hair and the philosopher splits hairs.”
― José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
“The abstract is no more than an instrument, an organ, to see the concrete clearly.”
― José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
“Man's real treasure is the treasure of his mistakes, piled up stone by stone through thousands of years.”
― José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
“We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.”
― José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
"The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid."
― José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
"Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity."
― José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
"With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals."
― José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
"We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it."
― José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
"We cannot put off living until we are ready."
― José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)