Jose Ortega y Gasset

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.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?