6 quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset

“An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.”— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“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

“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

“We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.”— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.”— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.”— Jose Ortega y Gasset