Liberalism 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 GassetBy speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.
Jose Ortega y GassetThere is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
Jose Ortega y GassetWe live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
Jose Ortega y Gasset