“The direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of this or that civilisation but from what we can judge today of any civilisation. The type of man dominant today is a primitive one, a Naturmensch rising up in the midst of a civilised world.” MenWorldHas BeensPrinciplesTakenJudgingTypeRisingMidstPrimitiveNot InterestedDominantCivilisationCivilisedRising Up Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to write) where others have written "jasmines, swans and fauns." But what he has really done has been simply to bring to light another form of rhetoric which hitherto lay hidden in the latrines.” ThinkingNeedsWritingHas BeensDoneWholeLightFormWrittenLaysRhetoricSwansJasmineSurrealistFauns Book:the Revolt of the Masses Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.” LifeInspirationalHas BeensLife IsInspirational LifeSeriesThis LifeLive LifeLife ChangingLive Your LifeBad AssMeaningful LifeCollisionLife Is Worth Living Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.” ShouldHas BeensExhaustedPreoccupation Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of the personal efforts of highly endowed individuals which the creation of this new world presupposed. Still less will he admit the notion that all these facilities still require the support of certain difficult human virtues, the least failure of which would cause the rapid disappearance of the whole magnificent edifice.” ThinkingMenWorldBelieveHumansHas BeensStillsWholeCertainIndividualCausesDifficultCommonEffortSupportVirtueCreationFindingsNotionExcellentNew WorldMagnificentRapidsFacilityCommon ManDisappearanceEdifice Book:the Revolt of the Masses Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart. Love is an impulse which springs from the most profound depths of our beings, and upon reaching the visible surface of life carries with it an alluvium of shells and seaweed from the inner abyss. A skilled naturalist, by filing these materials, can reconstruct the oceanic depths from which they have been uprooted.” HumansHeartHas BeensChoicesHuman BeingsLove IsMaterialsTypeLoversEssentialsSpringFemaleProfoundDepthMalesSurfaceImpulseVisibleReachingCarrieShellsAbyssHeart LoveNaturalistFilingSeaweed Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.” PersonsHas BeensLife IsOughtRuinsDebris Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until the present, the librarian has been principally occupied with the book as a thing, as a material object. From now on he must give his attention to the book as a living function. He must become a policeman, master of the raging book.” GivingHas BeensBookAttentionObjectsMaterialsMastersHigherFunctionLibraryMissionsRageLibrarianPolicemen Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
