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Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable..."

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

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Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere, for that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing. William Shakespeare
Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day. Neil Gaiman
I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am. Elizabeth Bowen
It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he. William Least Heat-Moon
Grow strong, my comrade? that you may stand. Unshaken when I fall; that I may know. The shattered fragments of my song will come. At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin. Where passing I leave off, and fathom more. Will Durant
Anita Brookner quote: "No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it..."
No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does. Anita Brookner
In this world, headwinds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim). Herman Melville
George Carlin quote: "California is a small woman saying, 'Fuck me.' New York is a..."
California is a small woman saying, 'Fuck me.' New York is a large man saying, 'Fuck you! George Carlin
Richard P. Feynman quote: "To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same..."
To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. And so it is with science. Richard P. Feynman
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. Isaac Asimov
Josh Groban quote: "Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way...."
Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything. Josh Groban
Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them. Gene Wolfe
It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them. Jeremy Paxman
Nicholas Sparks quote: "You know the real me," she said, stopping to peer up at him...."
You know the real me," she said, stopping to peer up at him. "More than anyone else. Nicholas Sparks
H. P. Lovecraft quote: "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. In his..."
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. H. P. Lovecraft