José Ortega y Gasset Quote

He 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.

There are those who have come into the world to fall in love with only one woman and, consequently, it is not likely that they will stumble upon her.

José Ortega y Gasset

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not a sum of what we have been, but of what we long to be.

José Ortega y Gasset

The beauty that attracts rarely coincides with the beauty that captivates.

José Ortega y Gasset

Progress is only possible when you think big, and it's only possible to move forward when you look far ahead.

José Ortega y Gasset

A good portion of men have no inner life other than that of their words, and their feelings are reduced to an oral existence.

José Ortega y Gasset

There is no love without sexual instinct. Love harnesses this instinct as a brutal force, like a brig uses the wind.

José Ortega y Gasset

Life takes on meaning when it becomes an aspiration to not give up on anything.

José Ortega y Gasset

Desire dies automatically when achieved: it fades when satisfied. Love, on the other hand, is eternally unsatisfied.

José Ortega y Gasset

To be surprised, to be puzzled, is to begin to understand.

José Ortega y Gasset

I am I and my circumstance

José Ortega y Gasset

He who cannot do what he wants must want what he can.

José Ortega y Gasset

Some people focus their lives in a way that they live with appetizers and side dishes. They never know the main course.

José Ortega y Gasset