Ortega y Gasset

Quotes

• “Properly speaking, there are no barbarian standards. Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. ...”
• “That man is intellectually of the mass who, in face of any problem, is satisfied with thinking the first thing he finds ...”
• “This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of to-day two fundamental traits: the free expansi...”
• “Surprising condition, this, of our existence! To live is to feel ourselves fatally obliged to exercise our liberty, to d...”
• “There might be a deceptive tendency to believe that a life born into a world of plenty should be better, more really a l...”