Jose ortega y gasset

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.