Men 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 GassetA revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
Jose Ortega y GassetThese are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.
Jose Ortega y GassetThe hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.
Jose Ortega y Gasset