José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish philosopher.
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“The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.”
Jose Ortega y Gasset
“By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.”
“A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation”
“Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.”
“Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.”
“Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.”
“In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.”
“This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.”
“The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.”
“Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.”