José Ortega y Gasset
"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 individual life making itself."
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"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 individual life making itself."
"الحياة عملية تُجرى في اتجاهٍ أمامي. يعيش المرء نحو المستقبل، لأن العيش يتألف حتمًا من الفعل، في أن تصنع كل حياة فردية ذاتها."
José Ortega y Gasset
"Law is born from despair of human nature."
"يولد القانون من يأس الطبيعة البشرية."
José Ortega y Gasset
"Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved."
"الشعر يفاعة تخمّرت، فصارت بذلك محفوظة."
José Ortega y Gasset
"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."
"الحياة سلسلة من الاصطدامات بالمستقبل؛ ليست مجموع ما كنا عليه، بل ما نتوق لأن نكونه."
José Ortega y Gasset
"We cannot put off living until we are ready."
"لا يسعنا إرجاء الحياة حتى نكون مستعدين."
José Ortega y Gasset
"An idea is a putting truth in check-mate."
"الفكرة إخضاع الحقيقة لكش ملك."
José Ortega y Gasset
"For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great."
"من لا يرى الصغير، لا يعظم لديه الكبير."
José Ortega y Gasset
"We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it."
"إننا بحاجة إلى التاريخ برمّته، لا لنرتدّ إليه، بل لنرى إن كان بوسعنا التفلّت منه."
José Ortega y Gasset
"An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself."
José Ortega y Gasset
"The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration."
José Ortega y Gasset
"Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else."
José Ortega y Gasset
"We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent "here and now " without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank."
José Ortega y Gasset
"The past will not tell us what we ought to do but... what we ought to avoid."
José Ortega y Gasset
"Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance."
José Ortega y Gasset
"Abasement degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be."
José Ortega y Gasset
"What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones."
José Ortega y Gasset
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