The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
Jose Ortega y GassetThe trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.
Jose Ortega y GassetMen play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world
Jose Ortega y Gasset