Life Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about life.

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

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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

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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

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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

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

José Ortega y Gasset

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

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With morality we correct the errors of our instincts, and with love the errors of our morality.

José Ortega y Gasset

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Eternal human life would be unbearable. It gains value precisely because its brevity tightens, condenses, and makes it compact.

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Thought is the only thing in the Universe of which its existence cannot be denied: to deny is to think.

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Man differs from the animal in that he drinks without thirst and loves without time.

José Ortega y Gasset

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Life has been given to us, but it has not been given to us made.