José Ortega y Gasset

“The rebellion of the masses is one of the facts which defines the present, and it is also one of the most threatening.”

“The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.”

“The rebellion of the masses is one of the facts which have caused the crisis of our time.”

“Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.”

“I am I and my circumstance; and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself.”

“Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to be.”

“Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.”

“A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.”

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”

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

“We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order to survive.”

“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.”

“Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.”

“A man is not a thing, but a drama.”

“Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not a sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”

“To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.”

“Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.”

“The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.”

“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.”