Quotes by Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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

#Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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

#Jose Ortega Y Gasset

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

#Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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

#Jose Ortega Y Gasset

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a...

#Jose Ortega Y Gasset

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

#Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe...

#Jose Ortega Y Gasset

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm...

#Jose Ortega Y Gasset

To live is to feel oneself lost.

#Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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

#Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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

#Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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

#Jose Ortega Y Gasset