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State Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset
- 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,…
- Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.
- I have never said that human society ought to be aristocratic, but a great deal more than that. What I have said, and still believe…
- [T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own.…
- Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.
More State Quotes
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. — Mahmoud Abbas
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila