Quotes from Jose Ortega y Gasset

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a pretty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

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.

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.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.