Jose Ortega y Gasset

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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To live is to feel oneself lost. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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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

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We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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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

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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