230 Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset

The poet begins where the man ends. The man’s lot is to live his human life, the poet’s to invent what is nonexistent.

Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being, and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.

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

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

Biography – a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

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.

One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted?If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he is after is having to win it, to conquer the surly brute through

A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.

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