“Strictly speaking, the mass, as a psychological fact, can be defined without waiting for individuals to appear in mass formation. In the presence of one individual we can decide whether he is "mass" or not. The mass is all that which sets no value on itself good or ill based on specific grounds, but which feels itself "just like everybody," and nevertheless is not concerned about it; is, in fact, quite happy to feel itself as one with everybody else.” FeelsFactsValuesIndividualWaitingMassConcernedIllPsychologicalDefinedNeverthelessFormation Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply should we feel, down to the roots of our being, their pressure and their sting. Whose hunger has ever been [sated] with the knowledge that he could not eat?” FeelsShouldMeanRootsPressureFinalsHungerExcuseAssuranceCallousnessSated Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.” MenLoveFeelsDivineMembersEssenceBelovedAcheDiscontentTranscendentalism Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.” ThinkingFeelsDoeStatesPoliticalRoomsPowerfulPrinciplesRightsLimitsAuthorityStrongerMajorityLiberalismSpiteExpensesPolitical Rights Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.” LifeFeelsLostSimpleAcceptingOneselfFirmSimple Truths Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves lost. And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. Those who accept it have already begun to find themselves, to be on firm ground.” PeopleFeelsLooksFacesLostRealizingSimpleAcceptingClearAcceptanceOneselfFirmSimple TruthsClear Head Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.” FeelsWellsMayFactsSeemsPoliticsCausesClassSocietyPoliticianHatredAccountsVariousDenySymbols Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
