“Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.”
Source: the Revolt of the Masses
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Famous Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes
“I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.”
“Life is fired at us point blank.”
Source: Mission of the University
“The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.”
Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.”
Source: the Revolt of the Masses
Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.”
“I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.”
“There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.”
“Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.”
Source: the Revolt of the Masses
Source: the Revolt of the Masses
Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.”
“All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.”
“For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.”
Source: Meditations on Hunting
Source: Meditations on Hunting
Source: Meditations on Hunting
Source: Meditations on Hunting
“Man is a fugitive from nature.”
Source: Meditations on Hunting