These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.
Jose Ortega y GassetThe most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection, mere buoys that float on the waves.
Jose Ortega y GassetWe need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
Jose Ortega y GassetThe people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves lost. And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. Those who accept it have already begun to find themselves, to be on firm ground.
Jose Ortega y Gasset