José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorEternal human life would be unbearable. It gains value precisely because its brevity tightens, condenses, and makes it compact.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorThought is the only thing in the Universe of which its existence cannot be denied: to deny is to think.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorMan differs from the animal in that he drinks without thirst and loves without time.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorMan is the being that absolutely needs truth, and, conversely, truth is the only thing that man essentially needs, his only unconditional need.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorEvery existing thing is a virgin that must be loved to become fruitful.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorIn 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.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorLove, 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.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorMaximum specialization equals maximum unculturedness.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorTell me how you have fun and I'll tell you who you are.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorMen do not live together just because, but to undertake great enterprises together.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorThe least we can do, in service of something, is to understand it.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorThe 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.