Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
Jose Ortega y GassetThe masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.
Jose Ortega y GassetImagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in it a little more of elegance and intensity; then, multiplying all these minute pressures toward the perfecting and deepening of each life by all the others, calculate for yourselves the gigantic enrichment, the fabulous ennobling which this process would create for human society.
Jose Ortega y Gasset