Jose Ortega y Gasset

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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