Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

Jose Ortega y Gasset

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

I am I plus my circumstances.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Jose Ortega y Gasset