Eugenio d'Ors (1881-1954) was a philosopher, writer, journalist and critic of Spanish art, specifically from Catalonia. His full name was Eugenio d'Ors Rovira. He was recognized with the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise in 1952, and with the Ondas Prize in 1954. In addition, he was established as one of the great European intellectuals of the 20th century..
Between two explanations, choose the clearest one; between two forms, the most elementary; between two expressions, the shorter.
To dream is to sleep with sheets interspersed in the text.
Let us use inaccurate words, if necessary, in exchange for understanding each other quickly.
Where the company had dreamed of, two solitudes are resurrected.
A healthy soul will be the one that, upon reaching the hour of death, is surprised by its own immortality.
The common places are quite unpleasant; But semi-common places are totally disgusting.
The fruit of the union of time with heroism, is called Nobility.
A school is not, strictly speaking, a real school until its door is opened. School means for us - for Europeans - never open doctrine, closed caste.
The country can be trusted more by a critic who works, than by an enthusiast who shouts.
Immortality has always been preceded by sacrifice.
One synthesis is worth ten analyzes.
Time spent humbly listening to things that are not understood is never wasted.
Laws are rules, but they are also weapons.
Any war between Europeans is a civil war.
The error is multiple; the truth, one.
Everything that is not tradition is plagiarism.
It is said that in the middle is virtue; most likely in the middle is boredom.
No cause wins but when it already has supporters among those whom Nature, fate, the interest destined for its adversaries..
You have to fly to all the winds of all the seas, but you have to procreate in a nest.
Not every light that goes on and off is a beacon. Accurate the rhythm.
Just look at something carefully to make it interesting.
Only one thing, apprentice, student, my son, only one thing will be told to you, and it is your work well done.
The blush can be our last nobility, when silence seems to have ceased to be our last and sad virtue.
France is a grace; England is a force; Germany is a technique.
Contemporary art is either an apprenticeship or a sham.
The man emancipates himself from the same instinct immediately that he begins to like the difficult.
There is no bankruptcy in the world worse than that of the man who has lost his enthusiasm.
Personality, behold the enemy of eternity.
Style, like nails, is easier to have shiny than clean.
What will must someone who wants to become a philosopher have? It should encourage a double will to find the truth and not to rest on it.
Thought means psychic activity, without expression. Thought is always expression, action, poetry.
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