Jose Gasset Quotations

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Contrary to the unsophisticated suggestions of melodrama, to rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as of the firm seat

A Don Juan is not a man who loves women, but a man that women love.

A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.

Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort