José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorIt is important to emphasize the role that facial features and gestures such as a kiss play in love. They reveal the authentic being of the person we love.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorHe who in the name of freedom renounces to be who he has to be, has already killed himself in life: he is a standing suicide. His existence will consist of a perpetual escape from the only reality that could have been.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorThat we don't know what's happening to us: that's what's happening to us.
José Ortega y Gasset
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José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorScience is everything about which there is always room for discussion.
José Ortega y Gasset
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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
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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.