José Ortega y Gasset Quotes

Man differs from the animal in that he drinks without thirst and loves without time.

Man is the being that absolutely needs truth, and, conversely, truth is the only thing that man essentially needs, his only unconditional need.

Every existing thing is a virgin that must be loved to become fruitful.

In the morphology of the female being, perhaps there are no figures more strange than those of Judith and Salome, the two women who go with two heads each: their own and the severed one.

Love, more than an elemental power, seems like a literary genre. Because love, more than an instinct, is a creation, and even as a creation, nothing primitive in man.

Maximum specialization equals maximum unculturedness.

Tell me how you have fun and I'll tell you who you are.

Men do not live together just because, but to undertake great enterprises together.

The least we can do, in service of something, is to understand it.

The history of bullfighting is linked to that of Spain, so much so that without knowing the former, it will be impossible to understand the latter.

with that of others.

Life has been given to us, but it has not been given to us made.