Jose Ortega y Gasset. Poverty and brilliance of translation (№ 418861)

People are eternally obsessed with longing, madship, mania, suffer from all those ailments that Hippocrates called divine. The reason is that human affairs are not feasible. The destiny - privilege and honor - of a person never to achieve his plan and to represent a pure aspiration, a living utopia. He always goes to defeat, even before the battle getting a wound in the temple.