230 Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

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

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

Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in it a little more of elegance and intensity; then, multiplying all these minute pressures toward the perfecting and deepening of each life by all the others, calculate for yourselves the gigantic enrichment, the fabulous ennobling which this process would create for human society.

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

Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.

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

He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.