"We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish Philosopher

Time, Creation, Man

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"We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create."

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