Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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• I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Always

• The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Human
  • Liberty
  • Sense

• I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Good
  • Men
  • Walk

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.

  

  Becky G
  • Inspiration
  • motivation
  • Industry

• Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Innovation
  • New
  • Disappear

• There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Universe
  • Chance

• As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Life
  • Country
  • Free

• In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • You
  • Fighting
  • Fighter

• Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Giving
  • Attention
  • Trump

• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Career
  • Tennis

• I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Characters

• Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Thoughts
  • New

• From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Love
  • Age
  • Diversity

• More is asked of you on stage. It's no way to make a living. But it's like a bullfight. You find out who can do it and who can't.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • You
  • Find
  • Stage

• Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Beautiful
  • Waiting
  • Brave

• The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Different
  • Way
  • Europe

• Fuseproject was founded in 1999, and the notion behind it, which is alive and kicking today, is fusing different disciplines. Our teams are absolutely incredible at their own discipline, but most importantly, they're incredible at partnering with each other.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Different
  • Today
  • Discipline

• Big waves are a whole different ball game. You're riding a wave with an immense amount of speed and power, generally over 10 meters. On the face of the wave, obviously life and death thoughts start to happen.

  

  Kelly Slater
  • Life
  • Different
  • Power

• I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Family

• If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich.

  

  Alice James
  • Life
  • Intervals
  • Density

• Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Up
  • Painting
  • Look

• One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.

  

  Anna Paquin
  • Country
  • Hate

• Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

  

  Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • Life