230 Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

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

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

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

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

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

By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.