“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
“To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity...” MeanIdentityLacking Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.” MenMeanAsksExcellence Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.” HumansMeanValuesCultureExistencePureEssenceEmploymentHuman LifeBigotryConcreteJustificationWorthlessJustifiedDehumanization Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.” ThinkingMeanIdeasRealityDesireGains Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.” LifeHumansMeanOur LivesEmptyMissionsSettingSettingsHuman LifeEmptinessDedicatedDefiniteLife Means Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.” MeanPersonsArtArtistSeriousBeing An ArtistSerious Person Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
