José Ortega Y Gasset: Frases en inglés (página 5)

“The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing minorities and put themselves in their place. Then, also, is produced the phenomenon of agglomeration, of "the full." For that reason, as Spengler has very well observed, it was necessary, just as in our day, to construct enormous buildings. The epoch of the masses is the epoch of the colossal.”

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José Ortega Y Gasset libro La rebelión de las masas

Chap.II: The Rise Of The Historic Level
The Revolt of the Masses (1929)

“I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing his truths, but when he is ready to enunciate them and give them out, he ought to avoid the cynical skill with which some scientists, like a Hercules at the fair, amuse themselves by displaying to the public the biceps of their technique.”

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José Ortega Y Gasset

Fuente: What is Philosophy? (1964), pp. 19-20

“Life is fired at us point blank.”

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More context: "To live or to be alive or, what is the same thing, to be a man, does not admit of any preparations or preliminary experiments. Life is fired at us point blank. ... Where and when we are born, or happen to find ourselves after we were born, there and then, like it or not, we must sink or swim."
Man and People [El hombre y la gente] (1957), p. 42, translated by Willard R. Trask. ISBN 0-393-00123-7

“It is not that one ought not to do just what one pleases; it is simply that one cannot do other than what each of us has to do, has to be. The only way out is to refuse to do what has to be done, but this does not set us free to do something else just because it pleases us. In this matter we only possess a negative freedom of will, a noluntas.”

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José Ortega Y Gasset libro La rebelión de las masas

We can quite well turn away from our true destiny, but only to fall a prisoner in the deeper dungeons of our destiny. … Theoretic truths not only are disputable, but their whole meaning and force lie in their being disputed, they spring from discussion. They live as long as they are discussed, and they are made exclusively for discussion. But destiny — what from a vital point of view one has to be or has not to be — is not discussed, it is either accepted or rejected. If we accept it, we are genuine; if not, we are the negation, the falsification of ourselves. Destiny does not consist in what we feel we should like to do; rather is it recognised in its clear features in the consciousness that we must do what we do not feel like doing.
Fuente: The Revolt of the Masses (1929), Chapter XI: The Self-Satisfied Age

“Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.”

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José Ortega Y Gasset

Meditations on Quixote (1914)
Fuente: as quoted in Susan Ratcliffe (ed.), Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subject, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010-03-11, page 223, ISBN 9780199567065