Quotes by : Jose Ortega y Gasset

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

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

Abasement degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty....

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

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

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.

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

Abasement degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty....