Top 40 Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

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

To live is to feel oneself lost.

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

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