The Characteristic Of The Hour Is That The Commonplace Mind, Knowing Itself To Be Commonplace, Has The Assurance To Proclaim The Rights Of The Commonplace And To Impose Them Wherever It Will.

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The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing
itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of
the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasse
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 Gasse...
The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man. -- Jose Ortega y Gasse
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasse...
Be commonplace and creeping, and you will be a success. -- Pierre de Beaumarchais (1732-1799)
Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason. -- Charles Curtis, "A Commonplace Book
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. Elbert Hubbard
Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
-- Jose Ortega Gasse...

The Characteristic Of The Hour Is That The Commonplace Mind, Knowing Itself To Be Commonplace, Has The Assurance To Proclaim The Rights Of The Commonplace And To Impose Them Wherever It Will.

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