Quotes by : Ortega y Gasset

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

But the man we are now analysing accustoms himself not to appeal from his own to any authority outside....

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

I know well that many of my readers do not think as I do. This also is most natural and confirms the....

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....

That man is intellectually of the mass who, in face of any problem, is satisfied with thinking the first....

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....

This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of to-day two fundamental traits:....