Generations Quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset Download Open image “It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.” — Jose Ortega y Gasset ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Generations Great men Men
There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much. — Nick Simmons Copy Share Image
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“For there is no doubt that the most radical division that is possible to make of humanity is that which splits 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, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are,… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share
I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us. — Michael Skolnik Copy Share Image
David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation. — J. Hoberman Copy Share Image
The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also… — Claude Nicollier Copy Share Image
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
