José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorThe greatest crime is now, not in those who kill, but in those who do not kill but let others kill.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorScience consists of replacing the knowledge that seemed certain with a theory, that is, with something problematic.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorFor the writer, there is a matter of intellectual honor in not writing anything subject to proof without first possessing it.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorA historian is a prophet in reverse.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorWhat perfection is this that pleases and does not subjugate, that admires and does not drag?
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorIt is harmful that we get used to recognizing as examples of healthy beauty some classical works, which may be objectively very valuable, but do not cause delight.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorThe future is the one that must prevail over the past, and from it we receive the command for our conduct in the face of what was.
José Ortega y Gasset
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José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorThe most valuable thing in man is his capacity for dissatisfaction.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorTechnique is the effort to save effort.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorFrom wanting to be to believing that one already is, lies the distance between the tragic and the comic.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorI only offer possible new ways of looking at things.