Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.”

“The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.”

“The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.”

“There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.”

“The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.”

“To live is to feel oneself lost.”

“Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.”

“The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.”

“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.”

“Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.”