Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes live pretext reason
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do. Jose Ortega y Gasset askexcellenceman Change image and share on social
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. Jose Ortega y Gasset creationcreatureefficacy Change image and share on social
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. Jose Ortega y Gasset adolescencefermentpoetry Change image and share on social
I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored. Armand Deutsch boreconvincedodger Change image and share on social
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. Friedrich August von Hayek emergencyerodeindividual Change image and share on social
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. Lewis Thomas antbeastbegin share on social