Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

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.

A Don Juan is not a man who loves women, but a man that women love.

I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.