"There are, above all, times in which the……" — Jose Ortega y Gasset
"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 it is made of descent and fall."
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153 Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.
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I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.
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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
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Life is fired at us point blank.
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The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of…
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The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.
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He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a…
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Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer…
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We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with…
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In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero…
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Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
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If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets…
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According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within…
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Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in…
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The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives,…
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If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation,…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.
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When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure.…
— Thomas S. Monson
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We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a…
— John P. Kotter
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I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.
— Penelope Lively
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Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
— Steven Bochco
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Whoever accelerates the media of earth, water and air centrifugally perishes unconditionally, for in so doing they reduce the Blood…
— Viktor Schauberger
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My final word, before I'm done, Is "Cancer can be rather fun"- Provided one confronts the tumour with a sufficient…
— John B. S. Haldane
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Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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