"Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individu...

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An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
More José Ortega y Gasset quotes
"Self-reflection or autognosis reveals that what is given in consciousness is, first and foremost, integral connectedness and organic unity of all thin...
"We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
"We see, then, that even from the zoological point of view, which is the least interesting and—note this—not decisive, a being in such condition can ne...
"Let others think what they like: for me, the culmination of life consists of a pure and subtly dramatic passion.
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