Quotes by Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone...

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of...

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Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

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

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

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Law is born from despair of human nature.

#Law And Lawyers

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

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

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

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

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

#Jose Ortega Y Gasset

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

#Jose Ortega Y Gasset