A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

Quote by Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the...

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the...

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the...

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the...

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when...

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when...

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but...

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but...

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved,...

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved,...

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and...

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and...

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe...

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe...

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic,...

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic,...

I am I plus my circumstances.

I am I plus my circumstances.

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him...

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him...

To live is to feel oneself lost.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new...

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new...

For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their...

For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their...

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of...

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of...