The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

Quote by Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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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,...

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of...

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of...

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm...

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm...

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.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what...

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what...

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone...

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone...

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human...

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human...

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he...

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he...

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace,...

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace,...

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

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...

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

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

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of...

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of...

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and Im not sure about the...

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and Im not sure about the...