230 Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset

An obsession is intrusive because it does not require a permit to walk into the brain.

In order to be enchanted we must be, above all, capable of seeing another person simply opening one's eyes will not do.

Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which ... can be called 'public' or 'popular' opinion.

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

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand