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José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.”

101. “Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.”

102. “The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act of permanent rebellion and subversion against social environs.”

103. “To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act of permanent rebellion and subversion against social environs.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.”

104. “To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.”

105. “There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.”

106. “Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.”

107. “The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.”

108. “Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.”

109. “The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.”

110. “Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.”

111. “Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.”

112. “The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.”

113. “Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man’s inner destiny sets it.”

114. “If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man’s inner destiny sets it.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.”

115. “Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “Triumph cannot help being cruel.”

116. “Triumph cannot help being cruel.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.”

117. “There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.”

118. “The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.”

119. “The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.”

120. “Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.”

121. “I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.”

122. “An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.”

123. “Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.”

124. “We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset Quote: “Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.”

125. “Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

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