José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish philosopher.
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“Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are”
Jose Ortega y Gasset
“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.”
“To live is to feel oneself lost”
“The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.”
“Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort”
“Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.”
“Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.”
“The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.”
“Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one”
“We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, 'here and now,' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.”