Quotes by : Ortega y Gasset

Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something, an enterprise glorious or humble, a....

To spoil means to put no limit on caprice, to give one the impression that everything is permitted to....

A concrete example of this mechanism is found in one of the most alarming phenomena of the last thirty....

Surprising condition, this, of our existence! To live is to feel ourselves fatally obliged to exercise....

For me, then, nobility is synonymous with a life of effort, ever set on excelling oneself, in passing....

The majority of men have no opinions, and these have to be pumped into them from outside, like lubricants....

Historical knowledge is a technique of the first order to preserve and continue a civilisation already....

The masses are advancing," said Hegel in apocalyptic fashion. "Without some new spiritual influence,....

The specialist serves as a striking concrete example of the species, making clear to us the radical nature....

The mass-man would never have accepted authority external to himself had not his surroundings violently....