Quotes by : Jose Ortega y Gasset

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

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.

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

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....

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

I am I plus my circumstances.