Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

The Spanish people are a glorious people, something is happening in Spain which may mean much to the rest of the world.

The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering.

Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.

And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.

I'm very, very Spanish. I have fat cheeks on both ends. I'm sitting on my Spanish part. And it's my heart, the way I am, the way I speak. It has nothing to do with the way I look.

The truth about the Costa del Sol is that what endures, what is worthwhile, is what is Spanish.

Any nation that forgets its past cannot have a future.

I have been in Spain a lot of years and I have a lot of love for the country.

I think that America has an obsession with history, really.

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

In Spain there's the king - and then there's Antonio.

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.

A great nation cannot throw off the responsibilities which its past history and its position in the world have imposed upon it.

A nation’s attitude toward its own history is like a window into its own soul.

We have a national memory in this country of about 7 minutes.

A nation creates itself not just with what it remembers, but with what it forgets.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

Other nations struggle to gain more territory, more food, more petroleum. Spain has battled and will continue to do battle so that there are more Catholics and honourable men in the world.

A lot of people may not read the history of their own country, but they carry on memories transmitted by previous generations. They're trying to achieve something, [they] have their mission and anger -- all this is fed by past experience of history.

Columbians prefer to descend to the eternal abysses rather than be Spaniards.

Happy is the nation without a history.