Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Authors:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the authors)
(Click a letter to view the authors)
Letter "J" » Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes
«Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
| About:
Revolution
| Keywords:
contradictory, preexisting, the uprising, traditional, uprising, uprisings
«Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.»
«Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
| Keywords:
Europe, fascism, for the first time, impose, resolved, syndicalism
«In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
| Keywords:
erects, fortress, fortresses, hero, meditates, quivering, quivers, torrent, unruly
«The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
| Keywords:
nonexistent
«This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
| Keywords:
ingratitude, psychological, psychology, spoilt, traits, well known
«The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.»
«Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.»
«We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.»
«Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.»
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
