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Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other."

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man"

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man




Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration."

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "An idea is a putting truth in check-mate."

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.




Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself."

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "The real magic wand is the child's own mind."

The real magic wand is the child's own mind.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me."

I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.




Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will."

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack."

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have."

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort."

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been."

Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.




Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "Life is fired at us point blank."

Life is fired at us point blank.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him."

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "Man is a fugitive from nature."

Man is a fugitive from nature.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world."

The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things."

The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence."

Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man.""

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made."

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries."

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly."

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall."

There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation."

Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet."

Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals."

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme."

The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another."

Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world"

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality."

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything to which to give themselves."

In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything to which to give themselves.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost."

The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities."

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground."

And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank."

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors."

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history."

Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within."

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks."

Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance."

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "Today violence is the rhetoric of the period."

Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not."

I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man."

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another."

All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility."

Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power."

Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted."

The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas."

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.



Ortega Y Gasset Quotes: "The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence."

The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.