One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.
Jose Ortega y GassetNobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'
Jose Ortega y GassetLife is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.
Jose Ortega y GassetLiberalism 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 Gasset