We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

Quote by Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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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...

I am I plus my circumstances.

I am I plus my circumstances.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

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...

To live is to feel oneself lost.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

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,...

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

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

To live is to feel oneself lost

To live is to feel oneself lost

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to...

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to...

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,...

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

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

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...

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is...

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is...

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

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

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

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

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

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...