Jose Ortega y Gasset Famous Quotes
"Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries."
"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 what we have been, but what we yearn to be."
The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.
"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 postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank."
"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."
"The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties and those who demand nothing special of themselves, bu"
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
"Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within."
"We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself."
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitalitythe supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotations
"I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this."
A C Benson
"It's easy to sit and scoff at an old man's folly. But also, check out his Adam's apple"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"Trust in Allah, but tie your camel."
Muslim Proverb
"Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions."
Woody Allen
"I am now going to make you a gift that will stay with you the rest of your life. For the rest of your life, every time you say 'We've always done it that way,' my ghost will appear and haunt you for twenty-four hours."
Grace Murray Hopper
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
John Lancaster Spalding
Warren Franks and Beans Franks and Beans
There s Something About Mary
"Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them."
Marilyn Ferguson
"If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too . . . If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same . . . Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it."
Rudyard Kipling
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Gladys Bronwyn Stern