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....

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

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

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.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn....

All life is the struggle the effort to be itself.