It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas.
FreePaperz now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Browse Authors
(Click a letter to view the authors)
Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes
«Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.»
«Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
|
Keywords:
announces,
concede,
conceded,
concedes,
conceding,
noblest,
recall,
resound,
resounded,
resounding,
resounds
«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.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
|
About:
Creativity,
Innovation
|
Keywords:
Creation,
creatures,
efficacy,
forgot,
fruitful,
magic,
potentialities,
potentiality,
tool,
verges
«To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.»
«An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.»
«The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.»
«By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
|
Keywords:
clarified,
clarifies,
clarify,
clarifying,
concept,
dislocate,
exacerbate,
exacerbated,
exaggeration,
exaggerations,
forces,
schematize,
speaking,
undertake,
undertook
«The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.»
«A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation»
«Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.»