Quotes About Ortega

Technisch gezien...' Alisa Ortega klonk alsof ze net een arsenicumpil had geslikt, 'is dit háár huis.

Sartre has called man a useless passion because he is so hopelessly bungled, so deluded about his true condition. He wants to be a god with only the equipment of an animal, and so he thrives on fantasies. As Ortega so well put it in the epigraph we have used for this chapter, man uses his ideas for the defense of his existence, to frighten away reality. This is a serious game, the defense of one's existence-how take it away from people and leave them joyous?

I think I'm pretty marketable when it comes to marketing fighters 'cause I've met a lot of 'em, and they're not that interesting. They don't do too many things, or their days are not like my days.

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)

Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.

Delenda est monarchia, dijo Ortega y Gasset. Y a eso se dedicó el personal, pensando en una república. La verdad es que el rey lo había puesto fácil.

El comunismo y el fascismo, dice Ortega, «dos claros ejemplos de regresión sustancial», son ejemplos típicos de la conversión del individuo en hombre-masa.

Los errores de Ortega no fueron los de un cobarde ni los de un oportunista; a lo más, los de un ingenuo que se empeñó en encarnar una alternativa moderada, civil y reformista en momentos en que ésta no tenía la menor posibilidad de concretarse en la realidad española.

Ortega y Gasset: «La claridad es la cortesía del filósofo».

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world.

The idea of beauty, like a slab of magnificent marble, has crushed all possible refinement and vitality from the psychology of love.

Fue siempre Madrid predilecta y víctima de la burocracia.

Com mais meios, mais saber, mais técnicas que nunca, o mundo atual acaba sendo o mais miserável que já houve: á deriva, nada mais.

Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

como nos ha recordado Ortega en su España invertebrada, o en La rebelión de las masas, el mayor mal de nuestro país consiste en el recelo de la masa recela ante el hombre de grandes virtudes, ante el hombre de espíritu, acogiendo, sin embargo, en su seno solo a profetas mediocres, tanto de un lado como de otro.

Don't get me wrong. A thinker thought, maybe it was Ortega y Gasset, that a country is in decadence when the parts no longer want to be part of the totality. It happened in the Soviet Union, it happened in Spain, it will happen in the States.

The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

he lay, eyes closed. But the caffeine, coupled with their argument, had revved him up. Sleep danced before him, but would not dance with him. The Ortega Case - Touch Series 1

Ou, aproveitando uma sugestão de Ortega, o processo em que a vida como biologia passa a ser vida como biografia.