The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Related:
- Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
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Jose 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... - 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... - Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep
his balance.
Jose Ortega... - Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep
his balance.
Jose Ortega... - The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind,
knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance... - 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 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...
