Jose Ortega y Gasset quotes and words of wisdom

"Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else."
Found in the topic Love.

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

"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."
Found in the topic Intellectual.

"Life means to have something definite to do--a mission to fulfill--and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something."
Found in the topic Life.

"He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create."
Found in the topic Capable.

"Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are."
Found in the topic Law.

Interesting Quotes

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.Stephen Hawking - English cosmologist and physicist (1942 - )

Big Brother is watching you.George Orwell - English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950)