Friday, December 31, 2021

The revolt of the masses (1930) by Ortega y Gasset. Quotes

 -Public life is not solely political, but equally, and even primarily, intellectual, moral, economic, religious; it comprises all our collective habits, including our fashions both of dress and of amusement. 

-To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

-Everything in the world is strange and marvelous to well-open eyes.

-This faculty of wonder is the one which leads the intellectual man through life in the perpetual ecstasy of the visionary.

-Society is always a dynamic unity of two component factors: minorities and masses.

-The minorities are the individuals or groups of individuals which are specially qualified. The mass is the average man. 

-The normal formation of a multitude implies the coincidence of desires, ideas, ways of life, in the individuals who constitute it. 

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