“In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditate...” — Jose Ortega y Gasset Quote

“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.”

“El buen lector es que tiene casi constantemente la impresión de que no se ha enterado bien.”

“Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.”

“The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.”

“Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.”

“Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”

“The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary.”

“I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.”

“The thing to do is to build a fortress within yourself.”

“I think Anfield is a fortress.”

“In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.”

“It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.”