I am I plus my circumstances.
Category Archive: Jose Ortega y Gasset
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
We cannot put off living until we are ready.
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.
Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.