Perception does not define who we are, but it does define where we are limited, and where we are not yet free.


Georgi Y. Johnson

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Sólo hay una Razón para negar la Obviedad : Resistirse a admitirla ".
FERNANDO GONZáLEZ Y LOZANO
Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET
Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coercive...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
There is but one way left to save a classic: to give up revering him and use him for our own salvati...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
La belleza que atrae rara vez coincide con la belleza que enamora.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of ma...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
Le premier signe de l'ignorance, c'est de présumer que l'on sait.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Y MORALES
Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generati...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradi...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Li...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
On the Bigotry of Culture:
: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET
The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET
To meditate is to sail a course, to navigate, among problems many of which we are in the process of ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET
He who does not really feel himself lost, is lost without remission; that is to say, he never finds ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET
Desde el siglo XVI ha entrado la humanidad toda en un proceso gigantesco de unificación, que en nue...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be us...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
The real magic wand is the child's own mind
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
We cannot put off living until we are ready.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know wha...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
And such in fact is the behaviour of the specialist. In politics, in art, in social usages, in the o...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET
If a solution fails to appear ... and yet we feel success is just around the corner, try resting for...
SANTIAGO RAMóN Y CAJAL
... every hypothesis is a construction, and because of this it is an authentic theory. In so far as ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET
Este Mundo es demasiado pequeño para contener mis Sueños, mis Pasiones y mis Aspiraciones ".
FERNANDO GONZáLEZ Y LOZANO
The idea of beauty, like a slab of magnificent marble, has crushed all possible refinement and vital...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET
All outstanding work, in art as well as in science, results from immense zeal applied to a great ide...
SANTIAGO RAMóN Y CAJAL
The mediocre can be educated; geniuses educate themselves.
SANTIAGO RAMóN Y CAJAL
What a wonderful stimulant it would be for the beginner if his instructor, instead of amazing and di...
SANTIAGO RAMóN Y CAJAL
It is fair to say that, in general, no problems have been exhausted; instead, men have been exhauste...
SANTIAGO RAMóN Y CAJAL
consider the possibility that any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brai...
SANTIAGO RAMóN Y CAJAL
It is important to realize that if certain areas of science appear to be quite mature, others are in...
SANTIAGO RAMóN Y CAJAL
Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originali...
SANTIAGO RAMóN Y CAJAL
The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the ...
SANTIAGO RAMóN Y CAJAL
This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental trait...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET
Life is Ambition, not for Survive but for Be Better each second, for Superate your Records and to Ge...
FERNANDO GONZáLEZ Y LOZANO
Let's take off the masks and get real so we can get it right with God.
UNDENA Y. LEAKE JACKSON
Why write, if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bull-fight...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET
A diferencia del poeta moderno, no vive aquejado por el ansia de originalidad. Sabe que su canto no ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, i...
JOHNSON
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely ne...
JOHNSON
He that never thinks can never be wise.
JOHNSON
The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
JOHNSON
Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon t...
JOHNSON