There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall.
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Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.
José Ortega y Gassetjust because of its promise of unlimited possibilities technology is an empty form like the most formalistic logic and is unable to determine the content of life.that is why our time,being the most intensely technical,is also the emptiest in all human history.
José Ortega y Gassettragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.
José Ortega y GassetPersistent ill-humour is all too clear an indication that someone is living contrary to his[her] intended purpose.
José Ortega y GassetLife cannot wait until the sciences may have explained the universe scientifically. We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, "here and now" without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point blank.
José Ortega y GassetThe metaphor is perhaps the most fruitful power of man. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
José Ortega y GassetThinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.
José Ortega y GassetThe mass is all which sets no value on itself──good or ill──based on specific grounds, but which feels itself "just like everything" ... The mass crushes beneath it everything which is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated.
José Ortega y GassetStichwörter: the-mass
There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.
José Ortega y GassetStichwörter: rejection
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