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