Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes about Life

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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.

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

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

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

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 a series of collisions with the future.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Inspirational, Life, Short Life

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 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

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

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life, Unemployment, Unemployed

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 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