Montesquieu
View AuthorFreedom is the right to do what the laws allow. If a citizen had the right to do what they prohibit, it would no longer be freedom, as anyone else would have the same right.
Montesquieu
View AuthorCountries are not cultivated by reason of their fertility, but by reason of their freedom.
Mary Tyler Moore
View AuthorOne cannot be brave if only wonderful things have happened to them.
Alfred de Musset
View AuthorThere is no true genius without patience.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorLife is a series of collisions with the future; it is not a sum of what we have been, but of what we long to be.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorLife takes on meaning when it becomes an aspiration to not give up on anything.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorSome people focus their lives in a way that they live with appetizers and side dishes. They never know the main course.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorWhenever you teach, teach at the same time to doubt what you teach.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorHe who in the name of freedom renounces to be who he has to be, has already killed himself in life: he is a standing suicide. His existence will consist of a perpetual escape from the only reality that could have been.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorWith morality we correct the errors of our instincts, and with love the errors of our morality.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorMen do not live together just because, but to undertake great enterprises together.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorLife has been given to us, but it has not been given to us made.