We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
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“We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.”
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About Jose Ortega y Gasset
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“We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.”
“An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.”
“The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things can be constructed which will enable us to know how to use them mechanically. Physics, as I have said on another occasion, is the technique of techniques and the ars combinatoria for fabricating machines. It is a knowledge which has scarcely anything to do with comprehension.”
“In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.”
“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.”
More History Quotes
“History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.”
“I still tell people, 'I'm pretty sure I'm the only 'Star Wars' fan in history to ever break into Skywalker Ranch by writing a movie about breaking into Skywalker Ranch.'”
“History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.”
“We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.”
“I'd love to do another 'Indiana Jones.' A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director - what's not to like?”
“I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.”