Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.Jose Ortega y Gasset
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.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.Jose Ortega y Gasset
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality; the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.Jose Ortega y Gasset
To live means to have a mission to fulfill - and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty.Jose Ortega y Gasset
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.Jose Ortega y Gasset
