top of page

"Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Love quotes

"Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love."

"Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions."

"It is a great joy to love and be loved."
Explore more quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset


"We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."


"The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities."


"Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist."


"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."


"Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself."


"A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation."


"We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself."


"Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly."


"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."
bottom of page