Quotes by Ortega y Gasset

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The majority of men have no opinions, and these have to be pumped into them from outside, like lubricants into machinery — Ortega y Gasset
A concrete example of this mechanism is found in one of the most alarming phenomena of the last thirty years: the enormo — Ortega y Gasset
Historical knowledge is a technique of the first order to preserve and continue a civilisation already advanced. Not tha — Ortega y Gasset
The masses are advancing," said Hegel in apocalyptic fashion. "Without some new spiritual influence, our age, which is a — Ortega y Gasset
To spoil means to put no limit on caprice, to give one the impression that everything is permitted to him and that he ha — Ortega y Gasset
Properly speaking, there are no barbarian standards. Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. — Ortega y Gasset
The specialist serves as a striking concrete example of the species, making clear to us the radical nature of the novelt — Ortega y Gasset
I know well that many of my readers do not think as I do. This also is most natural and confirms the theorem. For althou — Ortega y Gasset
Surprising condition, this, of our existence! To live is to feel ourselves fatally obliged to exercise our liberty, to d — Ortega y Gasset
Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something, an enterprise glorious or humble, a destiny illustriou — Ortega y Gasset
For me, then, nobility is synonymous with a life of effort, ever set on excelling oneself, in passing beyond what one is — Ortega y Gasset
That man is intellectually of the mass who, in face of any problem, is satisfied with thinking the first thing he finds — Ortega y Gasset
The mass-man would never have accepted authority external to himself had not his surroundings violently forced him to do — Ortega y Gasset
But the man we are now analysing accustoms himself not to appeal from his own to any authority outside him. He is satisf — Ortega y Gasset
This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of to-day two fundamental traits: the free expansi — Ortega y Gasset
There might be a deceptive tendency to believe that a life born into a world of plenty should be better, more really a l — Ortega y Gasset