José Ortega y Gasset
“He who does not really feel himself lost is obliged to remain in illusions.”
“The man with the clear head is the man who frees himself from these fantastic “ideas” and looks at the world without illusions.”
“Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce the use of force to the last resort.”
“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.”
“Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.”
“We do not live to think; we think in order to live.”
“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
“I am myself and my circumstance; and if I do not save it, I do not save myself.”