Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset
José Ortega y Gassetwas a Spanish liberal philosopher, and essayist. He worked during the first half of the 20th century, while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism, and dictatorship. His philosophy has been characterized as a "philosophy of life" that "comprised a long-hidden beginning in a pragmatist metaphysics inspired by William James, and with a general method from a realist phenomenology imitating Edmund Husserl, which served both his proto-existentialism and his realist historicism, which has been compared to both Wilhelm Dilthey...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth9 May 1883
CountrySpain
Jose Ortega y Gasset quotes about
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
The will to be oneself is heroism
I am I plus my circumstances.
For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.
Triumph cannot help being cruel.
All we are given are possibilities to make ourselves one thing or another.
Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.