57 ordspråk av José Ortega y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset föddes den May 9th 1883 och dog den 18 October 1955
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 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. |
| This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child. |
| To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. |
| To live is to feel oneself lost |
| Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions. |
| We cannot put off living until we are ready. |
| We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, 'here and now,' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank. |
| 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. |
| We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving. |
| We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it |
| We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. |
| Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts. |
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