Quotes By Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

I am I plus my circumstances.

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.

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.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

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

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.