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

Quote by Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Topics: Attention Quotes, Individuality Quotes, Integrity Quotes, Intention Quotes

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.

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.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new...

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new...

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

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

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand...

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand...

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

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

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...

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...

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

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.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

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...

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

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...

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.

I am I plus my circumstances.

I am I plus my circumstances.