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Quotations of selected author

Jose Ortega y Gasset

1. "Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts."

source: "The Revolt of the Masses"

categories: Youth and Age

2. "We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create."

categories: Human

3. "We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."

source: "In Search of Goethe from Within"

categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Life and Death

4. "The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent."

source: "The Dehumanization of Art"

categories: Art and Culture -:- Human -:- Education

5. "The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration."

source: "Meditations on Quixote"

categories: Nature and Animals -:- Good and Evil

6. "The cynic, a parasite of civilisation, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail."

source: "The Revolt of the Masses"

categories: Various

7. "Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors."

source: "The Dehumanization of Art"

categories: Art and Culture

8. "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."

categories: Life and Death -:- Time and Passing

9. "Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirious of living more do we really live."

source: "The Dehumanization of Art"

categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Life and Death

10. "Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values."

categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Good and Evil

11. "For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great."

source: "Meditations on Quixote"

categories: Various

12. "Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt."

source: "In Search of Goethe from Within"

categories: Pain and Tears -:- Work and Laziness

13. "Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly."

source: "Notes on the Novel"

categories: Various -:- Talent and Genius

14. "An "unemployed" existence is a worse negation of life than death itself."

source: "The Revolt of the Masses"

categories: Work and Laziness


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