Quotes by : José Ortega y Gasset

Let others think what they like: for me, the culmination of life consists of a pure and subtly dramatic....

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

We see, then, that even from the zoological point of view, which is the least interesting and—note....

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

To meditate is to sail a course, to navigate, among problems many of which we are in the process of clearing....

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....

Next time we will look at this from a much more basic point of view and one antedating all zoology, which,....

For the first time after so many years I come back to cry aloud in the desert. Because this is the mission....

Why write, if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bull-fighting....