Quotes by Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. >>

Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form o >>

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of crea >>

Quotations about Masses

The multitude is always wrong. >>

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight >>

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you ar >>

This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y