Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

It's a survival thing. I don't do anything to be artistic or just because I like it.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action...To remain alive, he must think.

I actually don't think that there is a connection between the survival instinct and a hunger for immortality.

People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.

Even if they don't know it, everyone has the instinct to survive.

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.

If you play dead often enough, you've got a great will to live.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

The greater part of the members of animals were generated by chance... What, then, hinders but that the parts in Nature may also thus arise from necessity? For instance, that the teeth should arise from necessity, the front teeth sharp and adapted to divide the food, the molars broad and adapted to breaking the food into pieces. It may be said that they were not made for this purpose, but that this purposive arrangement came about by chance; and the same reasoning is applied to other parts of the body in which subsistence for some purpose is apparent. And it is argued that where all things happened as if they were made for some purpose, being aptly united by chance, these were preserved, but such as were not aptly made, these were lost and still perish.

I do what I've got to do to survive, to keep my teeth in my head, and my head on my shoulders. I apologize to whoever can't put that together and understand that.

Surviving is not something you need to learn. You don't need to learn survival skills; you have them already. That's why we're here, all of us, because it's a game of survival anyway.

Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.

I think that everybody does hustle in order to survive. That doesn't mean lying - it's more about how you handle situations.

The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival.

Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.