Quotes by : Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize....

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

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

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

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

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

Man adapts himself to everything to the best and the worst.