Jose Ortega Y Gasset

13 quotations
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset · Effort
I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset · Environmentalism
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset · Excellence
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset · Force
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset · Government
An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset · Ideas
Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset · Inferiority
Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset · Biography
Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset · Surprises
For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset · Things and Little Things
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset · Thoughts and Thinking
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset · Youth
An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset · Unemployment

Subjects Jose Ortega Y Gasset spoke about

Biography Effort Environmentalism Excellence Force Government Ideas Inferiority Surprises Things and Little Things Thoughts and Thinking Unemployment Youth