I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

- Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.

- Jose Ortega Y Gasset

To wonder is to begin to understand.

- Jose Ortega Y Gasset

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

- Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

- 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

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

- Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

- Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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

- Jose Ortega Y Gasset