Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

Quote by Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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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.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

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

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

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

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,...

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.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he...

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he...

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.

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...

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but...

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but...

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...

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

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

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what...

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what...

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

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

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...

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the...

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the...

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

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

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...