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.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

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.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.