Top 100 Ortega Quotes
#1. I'm Kristin Ortega, Organic Damage Division. Bancroft was my case.
Richard K. Morgan
#2. Oh, also, if Mr. Ortega catches me writing you this letter, I am committed to shoving it in my mouth and swallowing. I hope I can count on the same commitment from you.
Kasie West
#3. a quotation from the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset as an epigraph for Stoner: "A hero is one who wants to be himself." In
John Williams
#4. The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)
Ronald Reagan
#5. Find the joy in your everyday situations. You have the choice, you always did and you will always do. Thrive.
Ana Ortega
#7. There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#8. He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#9. I have long since learned, as a measure of elementary hygiene, to be on guard when anyone quotes Pascal.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#12. Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being , and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#13. All we are given are possibilities to make ourselves one thing or another.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#14. Silence nurtures the soul, relaxes the body temple and gives us the strength we need in moments of uncertainty. Welcome it.
Ana Ortega
#15. Man,then, rather than by what he he is,or by what he has,escapes the zooological scale by what he does,by his conduct.hence it is that he must always keep watch on himself.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#18. The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#19. The idea of beauty, like a slab of magnificent marble, has crushed all possible refinement and vitality from the psychology of love.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#20. The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#21. That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such contradiction, for there is no such triumph. Russia is Marxist more or less as the Germans of the Holy Roman Empire were Romans.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#22. The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#24. A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is in a relationship of superiority or inferiority with regard to every other. Strict equality is exceedingly improbable and anomalous.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#25. I have this drive to prove people wrong - people who thought I should give up or assumed I'd never get anywhere.
Lindi Ortega
#28. We're not in a fairytale story. This is not a movie. Scriptwriters don't write our fates. We do.
Ken Marvin Ortega
#30. In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which he may chart his course, only one limit: the past.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#32. I was working in theater, so I didn't get to go to my prom.
Kenny Ortega
#33. In a way the philosopher and the barber are of the same guild; the barber cuts hair and the philosopher splits hairs.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#34. I am I and my circumstance; and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#35. Let others think what they like: for me, the culmination of life consists of a pure and subtly dramatic passion.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#36. The abstract is no more than an instrument, an organ, to see the concrete clearly.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#37. The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#38. Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#39. The few individuals who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an incessant course of training.
Ortega Y Gasset, Jose
#40. 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.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#41. Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#42. Man's real treasure is the treasure of his mistakes, piled up stone by stone through thousands of years
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#43. just because of its promise of unlimited possibilities technology is an empty form like the most formalistic logic and is unable to determine the content of life.that is why our time,being the most intensely technical,is also the emptiest in all human history.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#44. When you are fed up with the troublesome present, take your gun, whistle for your dog, and go out to the mountain.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#45. It's always my goal to raise the bar with each record I put out.
Lindi Ortega
#46. How could I be sure of these teeangers' national origin? Was I using names of origin to give them a place instead, when it was clear that they were moving toward a new language?
Julio Ortega
#47. Tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#48. Man's being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half transcending it.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#49. The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism.
Daniel Ortega
#50. With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#51. If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#52. As they do not see, behind the benefits of civilization, marvels of invention and construction which can only be maintained by great effort and foresight, they imagine that their role is limited to demanding these benefits peremptorily, as if they were natural rights.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#54. Marxian Socialism and Bolshevism are two historical phenomena which have hardly a single common denominator.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#57. Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#59. Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#60. The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#62. When life hurts, have a date with your feelings.
Breath and let the magic begin!
Ana Ortega
#63. The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#64. Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here.
Daniel Ortega
#65. Technology offers great communication tools. Social media helps make connections. And, heart to heart conversations take place face to face and not over email, Whatsup, Facebook or Twitter. Don't be deceived.
Ana Ortega
#67. Every hypothesis is a construction, and because of this it is an authentic theory. In so far as they merit that exigent name, ideas are never a mere reception of presumed realities, but they are constructions of possibilities; therefore they are pure bits of imagination, or fine ideas of our own ...
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#68. For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#69. There was no damn way we were ever gonna put our people into the ground again.
Beneath us was hell.
Heaven's above ...
... and that's where we all deserve to be.
Joshua Ortega
#70. I want you to smile. I want you to truly smile today.
Realize that right now you are where you need to be. And, there is no need to rush. You are on-time, you always have been and you will always be. Please keep smiling.
Ana Ortega
#72. The metaphor is perhaps the most fruitful power of man. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#75. In our rather stupid time, hunting is belittled and misunderstood, many refusing to see it for the vital vacation from the human condition that it is, or to acknowledge that the hunter does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, he kills in order to have hunted.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#76. The combinations of these two elements, enchantment and surrender, is, then, essential to the love which we are discussing ... What exists in love is surrender due to enchantment.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#78. To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act of permanent rebellion and subversion against social environs.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#80. Patrick Swayze reminded me a lot of Gene Kelly. Patrick had that Everyman quality. Gene made dancing sort of an accessible idea for the regular guy out there.
Kenny Ortega
#81. 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
#82. Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#83. There's an old Fred Astaire movie where the stage becomes bigger and deeper and more complex. Moments like that really did impact on me and influence me.
Kenny Ortega
#85. Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#87. By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#88. Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#89. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#91. Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#92. Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect to the human race through song makes me feel less alien.
Lindi Ortega
#94. Whatever is what you are creating is what creates you.
Ana Ortega
#95. Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#97. I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#99. I do not know about you. But, I prefer a life spent making mistakes than a life making none.
Ana Ortega
#100. Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army, since they didn't manufacture armaments in the quantities that we required. So we turned to Algeria and the Soviet Union for support.
Daniel Ortega
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