Jose Ortega y Gasset – 6 Quotes

6 Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

– 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

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

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

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

– Jose Ortega y Gasset