Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Bad Ass

• There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life, People, Side Dishes

• Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life, Mean, Emptiness

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

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life, Unemployment, Unemployed

• Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life, Struggle, Answers

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

• 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

  Life, Success, Men

• And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life, Simple, Accepting

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter XIV: "Who Rules The World?", 1929.

• Life is fired at us point blank.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life, Life Is, Blank

  Jose Ortega y Gasset (2014). “Mission of the University”, p.51, Routledge

• Life is a series of collisions with the future.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspirational, Life, Short Life

• We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspirational, Life, Motivation

  "'Misión de la Universidad' ('Mission of the University')". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, translated by Howard Lee Nostrand, p. 73, 1946.

• Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life, Inspire, Burning

• 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

  Life, Moving Forward, Done

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