He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply
suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal
trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at
the feet of the new.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset
suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal
trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at
the feet of the new.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset
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creation,
but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega... - 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... - All we are given is possibilities -- to make ourselves one thing or another.
Ortega y... - 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... - Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
--
Jose Ortega y... - I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are
ready,
and which have gone a little farther down our particular... - The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.
Jose Ortega y... - Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep
his balance.
Jose Ortega...
From the same category:
- Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without
integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel... - The beginning of wisdom is silence.
The second step is listening... - What your heart thinks great is great. The soul's response is always
right.
Ralph Waldo Emerson,... - No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean... - You can lead a car to a highway,
but you can't make it think...
