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.
-- Ortega y Gasset
of life is its coerciveness; it is always urgent, here and now, without any
possible postponement. Life is fired at us point blank.
-- Ortega y Gasset
Related:
- 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. Jose Ortega y... - He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us,
but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture... - All we are given is possibilities -- to make ourselves one thing or another.
Ortega y... - We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of
creation,
but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega... - The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind,
knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance... - The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.
Jose Ortega y... - Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
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Jose Ortega y... - The love we hold back is the only pain that follows us here.
And the memory of that love shouldn't make you unhappy... - Here we are now!
Entertain us...
