Jose Ortega Y Gasset
» Arts and Artists » “Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.”
» Biography » “Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.”
» Chaos » “In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.”
» Classics » “There is but one way left to save a classic: to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.”
» Commonplace » “The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.”
» Creativity » “We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.”
» Crowds » “Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, caf
