The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
Jose Ortega y GassetLife 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 GassetWe fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.
Jose Ortega y GassetHe who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.
Jose Ortega y GassetIf the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
Jose Ortega y GassetOn the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.
Jose Ortega y Gasset