Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes
An ''unemployed'' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.



Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.



Liberalism is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence itis the noblest cry that has ever resounded on this planet.



The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.



Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.



Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved



Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.



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



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.



The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.



Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.








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