What did Jose Ortega y Gasset mean by: Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. - Jose Ortega y Gasset Philosopher · Spain Copy
+ The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but… what we ought to avoid. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Past, Regret, 0 - Jose Ortega y Gasset Philosopher · Spain
+ For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Little Things, Persons, Small Things, 0 - Jose Ortega y Gasset Philosopher · Spain
+ Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Novelists, Originals, 0 - Jose Ortega y Gasset Philosopher · Spain
+ Man in a word has no nature; what he has… is history. Feraz Zeid, September 2, 2023December 24, 2023, Jose Ortega y Gasset, History, 0 - Jose Ortega y Gasset Philosopher · Spain
+ Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity. Feraz Zeid, August 8, 2023December 12, 2023, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Persist, Stupidity, Surprise, 0 - Jose Ortega y Gasset Philosopher · Spain
+ Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Feelings, Hate, Irritation, 0 - Jose Ortega y Gasset Philosopher · Spain
+ Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Burning, Inspiration, 0 - Jose Ortega y Gasset Philosopher · Spain
+ All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself. Feraz Zeid, August 28, 2023December 24, 2023, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Effort, Struggle, 0 - Jose Ortega y Gasset Philosopher · Spain
There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power. - Gary D. Schmidt Author
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. - Marya Mannes Writer · USA
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. - Lincoln Steffens Journalist · USA
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. - George Bernard Shaw Playwright · Ireland
The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates. - Walter Darby Bannard Painter · USA
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself! - Jean Racine Playwright · France
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks? - Jean-Baptiste Say Economist · France
