Ultima VIII

Famous quotes containing the words ultima and/or viii:

    “Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the ultima ratio.”
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)

    “When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
    What is man, that thou art mindful of him?”
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalm VIII (l. VIII, 3–4)