Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes About Life
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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.
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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.
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Life is fired at us point blank.
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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.
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Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.
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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.
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There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
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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.
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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.
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Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.
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Life is a series of collisions with the future.
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An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
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