Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

Quote by Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Topics: Duty Quotes, Frustration Quotes, Success Quotes

To live is to feel oneself lost.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the...

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the...

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic,...

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic,...

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace,...

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace,...

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

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

To live is to feel oneself lost

To live is to feel oneself lost

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

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

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him...

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him...

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

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

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

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

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when...

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when...

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

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

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

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to...

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to...

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human...

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human...

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

I am I plus my circumstances.

I am I plus my circumstances.

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

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

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

We cannot put off living until we are ready.