The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection, mere buoys that float on the waves.
Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.
Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset
I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
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 a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
To wonder is to begin to understand. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset
To wonder is to begin to understand.
With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset
With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.
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