Quotes by : José Ortega y Gasset

I am I and my circumstance; and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself.

Thinking of things" is but a special way of dealing with them; but, as is obvious, it is a secondary....

Man is a fantastic animal; he was born of fantasy, he is the son of "the mad woman of the house." And....

So it happens that we must ask ourselves, with regard to truth, not for a new criterion for it, which....

And such in fact is the behaviour of the specialist. In politics, in art, in social usages, in the other....

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness:....

Self-reflection or autognosis reveals that what is given in consciousness is, first and foremost, integral....

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the....

The mass-man would never have accepted authority external to himself had not his surroundings violently....

... every hypothesis is a construction, and because of this it is an authentic theory. In so far as they....