José Ortega y Gasset Quotes

From wanting to be to believing that one already is, lies the distance between the tragic and the comic.

I only offer possible new ways of looking at things.

Loyalty could be said to be the shortest path between two hearts.

The most serious flaw of man is ingratitude.

Infatuation is a state of mental misery in which the life of our consciousness narrows, impoverishes, and paralyzes.

Love, which they depict as blind, is actually perceptive and insightful because the lover sees things that the indifferent person does not see, and that's why they love.

We are not shot into existence like a rifle bullet with a completely determined trajectory. It is false to say that what determines us are the circumstances. On the contrary, the circumstances are the dilemma in front of which we have to make a decision. But it is our character that decides.

The majority of men have an intellectual capacity that is far superior to the exercise they make of it.

Authentic love is always found made. In this love, one being becomes permanently and completely attached to another being. It is the love that begins with love.

As long as there is someone who believes in an idea, the idea lives.

The world is the sum total of our life possibilities.

Whoever does not truly feel lost is inexorably lost; that is to say, they never find themselves, they never come face to face with their own reality.