Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes and its meanings

What does Jose Ortega y Gasset write about?

Jose Ortega y Gasset has written on many topics but he is most famous for his work about death, future, history, life, love, nature & poetry. People always share Death quotes, Future quotes, history, life, love, nature & poetry from his literary works.

What are the top most famous quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset?

Here are the top most famous quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset.

• An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
• Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
• 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.
• We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
• Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
• Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.