A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
Jose Ortega y GassetIn order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.
Jose Ortega y GassetThe form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."
Jose Ortega y GassetLiberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.
Jose Ortega y Gasset