Begin Quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset Download Open image “To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.” — Jose Ortega y Gasset ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Begin Learning Surprised Understand Wonder
I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed. — Bernard Beckett 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… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
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 Image
If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Begin as you mean to go on, and go on as you began, and let the Lord be all in all to you.” — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The idea with a collection is sort of to begin with a kind of bang. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
“Humble yourself before the Lord and he will lift you high. People who are gentle, humble and able always have a great ending no… — israelmore ayivor Copy Share Image
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Quitters don’t gain what they have started working on; waiters don’t start what they could have gained. What is common there is failure.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you… — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
The public should begin to understand that there's nothing that comes out of this campaign, or this Obama White House, that they can believe.… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
I look forward to the day that a lot of the folks that you all talk about and cover on this network will begin… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
