Quotes by : Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live....

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

The past will not tell us what we ought to do but... what we ought to avoid.

To live means to have ... a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life....

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

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.....

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre....

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life....

I am I plus my circumstances.