Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset

Explore a curated collection of 27 quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Man adapts himself to everything to the best and the worst. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing — Jose Ortega y Gasset
To live means to have ... a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something we ma — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
All life is the struggle the effort to be itself. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Abasement degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Abasement degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The past will not tell us what we ought to do but... what we ought to avoid. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always u — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of him — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great. — Jose Ortega y Gasset