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Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

«We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it»
«To live is to feel oneself lost»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset | About: Living
«Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset | Keywords: ceasing, serious
«For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.»
«The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.»
«Law is born from despair of human nature.»
«Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort»
«We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset | Keywords: fabulously
«Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.»
«Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved»

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