“The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.” IfsHandsPastFightingLostOpinionStruggleOvercomingSwallowing Book:the Revolt of the Masses Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other.” IfsDoeFormMoralityNegativeEmptyPreservesSubmitLackingNormImmoralGrammarUnwillingAmorality Book:the Revolt of the Masses Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which can be called "public" or "popular" opinion.” IfsDoeOpinionMeditationHonestThemeMeditatingPrevailingPopular Opinion Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.” IfsWholeAgeSongHistoryUnderstood Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile and two-horned topics?” IfsWritingTwoCertainGivenEasyRiskDangerousActivityPaperApproachPushingPensTopicsBullfighting Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.” IfsNeedsWholeFallHistoryStudyFall BackEntirety Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.” IfsJusticeGardenSocial JusticeSave Me Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.” IfsMenHumansProblemWisdomOrderDestinyFunctionIntelligenceSolveIntellect Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.” IfsEnvironmentLandPreservesLatterPlusSurroundingsStewardship Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
