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Humans Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset
- The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing…
- If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
- Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in…
- 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…
- This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that is to say,…
- In our rather stupid time, hunting is belittled and misunderstood, many refusing to see it for the vital vacation from the human condition that it…
- The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man.
- Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.
- Law is born from despair of human nature.
- Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
- Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
- The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
- The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.
- There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for…
- On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but…
- In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours…
More Humans Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong