To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
From Jose Ortega y Gasset
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
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.
The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
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.
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
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