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We Cannot Put Off Living Until We Are Ready. The Most Salient Characteristic Of Life Is Its Coercivene
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We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic
of life is its coerciveness; it is always urgent, here and now, without any
possible postponement. Life is fired at us point blank.
-- Ortega y Gasset
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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Jose Ortega y Gasse...
He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to u
but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new....
All we are given is possibilities -- to make ourselves one thing or another. -- Ortega y Gasse
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasse...
The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasse...
The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man. -- Jose Ortega y Gasse
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasse
The love we hold back is the only pain that follows us here.
And the memory of that love shouldn't make you unhappy for the rest of your life. -- Alway...
Here we are now! Entertain us!